Unemployed autoworkers real losers in Peugeot-Iran row: Analyst
Press TV – July 27, 2012
France’s largest car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen made a “disastrous” choice to sever ties with Iran, given Europe’s economic crisis and failing car markets, an expert says.
In February, the automaker decided to end relations with the Islamic Republic, losing the half-million vehicle sales Iran would have provided in 2012.
“Such a move, amid the European sovereign debt crisis and plummeting auto sales across the continent, seems like it could only be a disastrous business decision. And it is,” Ramin Mazaheri wrote in an article published on Press TV website.
Unable to replace the lucrative market, Peugeot was later forced to jettison 8,000 jobs to compensate for billions of euros it lost as a result, he noted.
Mazaheri dismissed the “strengthening of sanctions” against Iran and banking difficulties as the reasons behind the company’s decision.
“In exchange for selling seven percent of the company’s shares to General Motors, owned by the American government, the US insisted that Peugeot should stop selling cars to Iran,” he explained.
The analyst further referred to Iran’s policy of “economic protectionism,” which has helped the country to produce more cars than Italy or the UK and become the world’s 12th largest auto manufacturer.
Peugeot’s pullout will not affect the Iranian car industry as Iran will now continue to partner with other auto companies and to “improve the quality of Iranian vehicles by importing car kits to be assembled in Iranian factories,” according to Mazaheri.
“The 8,000 now-unemployed auto workers, as well as those who worked at the thousands of secondary jobs associated with the Peugeot plants” are the real victims of the company’s decision, he concluded.
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They did not spend the years developing the skills of diplomacy through effective communications. That’s hard work and time consuming. This is a society of instant gratification: children grow up quickly off of formula and not the mother’s breast; food is grown quickly through genetic engineering and pesticides; women get babies through quick impregnation by visiting the sperm banks or fertility clinics.
Everything must happen when I want it. It’s not a matter of savoring life and watching one’s world unfold and grow, So they shrink their world by eliminating large swathes of the world’s population with their weapons of mass destruction — shock and awe, massacres — drone strikes.
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