US Quietly Granting Iran Sanctions Waivers to Help Fight Coronavirus
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U.S. policy toward both North Korea and Iran leaves great room for improvement. Trump's outreach to Pyongyang was a constructive gesture, but it needs to be accompanied by the easing of sanctions. Washington's entire attitude toward Tehran is eve
The coronavirus pandemic's impact in Iran, which already claimed over 1,800 lives and infected more than 23,000 people, is one of the world's more troubling examples of widespread infection, with insufficient medical resources to treat the victim
But it's a MASS MURDER that will only strengthen Tehran govt
What does Washington do on the very day that a top Iranian health official predicted "millions" inside the country could die and pleaded for external help? Slap on some new sanctions and tighten the economic blockade further of course!
Calls on Washington to drop sanction so they can go and buy what's needed
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warns that the American sanctions are "literally" taking lives in Iran in the midst of a fight to rein in a coronavirus outbreak, calling on world states to join "a growing global campaign" to defy the
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Iran's well-known state media outlet Fars News Agency says US sanctions have knocked it off the internet. As of Friday and into early Saturday the en.farsnews.com domain remained inaccessible while the outlet says it quickly alternately established E
The Iranians were evil, said the US government official in charge of economic sanctions, because it restricted what its citizens could read in the international press.
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The U.S. extradition proceedings against Chinese business executive Meng Wanzhou only goes to show the utter perversity of the U.S. government's policy of imposing economic sanctions on foreign regimes and, in a larger context, the perversity of th
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On Friday six European countries issued a bombshell joint statement declaring their intent to join INSTEX, or the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges, a European special-purpose vehicle serving as a 'SWIFT alternative' to bypass US sanctions on
As Russia's defense tech sector continues attracting interest from countries across Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Washington increasingly finds itself in the awkward position of having to threaten and cajole its own regional allies.
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Americans Meet With Iranians at Their Peril
The global shipping industry was thrown a curveball on Wednesday when the U.S. imposed fresh sanctions on Chinese entities and people who it accuses of deliberately purchasing oil from Iran in violation of Washington's sanctions against Tehran, Bloom
After John McCain and Victoria Nuland's "Maidan Revolution," the US decided to kick Russia out of international polite society. Naturally sanctions followed. How's that all going?
It appears oil markets just heard that one - since the early Saturday attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities talk of war has been on the table, especially given President Trump's initial "locked and loaded" threat - however it now seems certain there wil