Auto-boycotting!

Haddad Aadel, the speaker of the House, has claimed that Europeans are desperately dependent on the markets in the Muslim world and went on to demand that the Muslims should be thinking to boycott Danish goods as a protest against the "Danish insult" upon Prophet Mohammad. It is ironic that according to him, the most " effective method" to deal with this kind of issues " is economic boycott". This may be so, but it is not clear why he and other Iranian leaders keep claiming that the existing boycott by the US and others against Iran had no effect whatsoever on the economy. Some have even claimed that it has been beneficial, as it encouraged domestic production. This is despite the fact that there is no evidence in support of this claim. On the contrary, all the available evidence seem to show a deterioration of the economic conditions in Iran. It is worth pointing out that Mr Haddad seems unaware of the fact that if any restriction is imposed on a member of the EU, then other members would have to respond and they usually do. When this issue came into the open sometimes ago and the Iranian authority threatened to boycott Danish goods, the EU issued a very strongly worded statement that those restrictions would also " apply" to other members, i..e. Iran would be almost automatically boycotted by the rest of the EU. On that occasion, very quietly the Iranians ignored their own threat and I think, they would do the same this time.