List of U.S. Economic Sanctions articles
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson leaves a briefing on North Korea at the State Department on Aug. 22, 2017 (Brendan Smialowski /AFP/Getty Images) State Department Scraps Sanctions Office
The Trump administration was three weeks late on a Russia sanctions deadline. But it’s killed the office that coordinates them.
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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Oct. 13. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) The Slippery ‘Spirit’ of Nixing the Iran Deal
Obama's JCPOA terms actually give the White House sound legal footing for decertification. But now Trump owns the consequences.
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Souvenir glasses with an image of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images) The Trump Administration Is Now Offering Cash Bounties for Hezbollah Leaders
The U.S. announced $12 million for two senior leaders, marking a shift in counterterrorism strategy.
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John McCain and Ben Cardin confer in Sept. 2013. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) Leading Lawmakers Wonder Why Trump Is Dragging Feet on Russia Sanctions
McCain and Cardin ask Trump what’s taking so long.
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A Chinese trader prepares goods headed to North Korea on Dec. 30, 2011. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) How to Succeed in Business in North Korea
International sanctions can't compete against the ingenuity of North Korean entrepreneurs.
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Sudanese President and Commander in Chief Omar al-Bashir salutes during a ceremony to mark the 53rd anniversary of the creation of the Sudanese armed forces in the northern Sudanese city of Merowe, on August 14, 2007. Isam Al-Haj/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Finally Lifts Sudan Sanctions, Citing Better Cooperation on Counterterrorism
Rights advocates, fearing loss of leverage over Khartoum, are dismayed
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The Suez Canal, Egypt, in 2015. The U.N. Can’t Enforce Its Sanctions on the North Korean Arms Trade
Fortunately, the United States can.
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Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya has emerged as a possible interlocutor between the Kremlin and Trump campaign operatives. GOP Congressman Met in Moscow With Kremlin-Linked Lawyer at Center of Russia Investigation
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met in Moscow with Natalia Veselnitskaya two months before she met with Donald Trump Jr.
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The vice minister of the North Korean Ministry of People's Security inspects weapons at a police training academy in Kampala, Uganda, on June 13, 2013. The U.S. Needs Real Diplomacy to Counter North Korea in Africa
Convincing African countries to truly isolate North Korea would require diplomatic prowess that the United States currently lacks.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses the parliament in Tehran on Aug. 15. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images) If the U.S. Reimposes Sanctions on Iran, Allies Will Follow
Cry as they might along the way, no European or Asian corporation is going to choose a terrorist regime over access to the U.S. dollar.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Dialogue of Emerging Market and Developing Countries on the sidelines of the 2017 BRICS Summit in Xiamen, southeastern China's Fujian Province on September 5, 2017. Xi opened the annual summit of BRICS leaders that already has been upstaged by North Korea's latest nuclear weapons provocation. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / WU HONG (Photo credit should read WU HONG/AFP/Getty Images) Russia Isn’t the Answer to America’s Problems With North Korea
Moscow is not the place to look for solutions.
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Iranian Revolutionary Guards drive a speedboat in front of an oil tanker during a ceremony to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the downing of Iran Air flight 655 by the US navy, at the port of Bandar Abbas on July 2, 2012. The plane was shot down by mistake over the Gulf by the US navy's guided missile cruiser, USS Vincennes, during confrontation with Iranian speedboats on July 3, 1988, killing 290 civilian passengers and crew members. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/GettyImages) Trump Will Be Hard-Pressed to Get Allies to Stop Buying Iran’s Oil
Hawks want to reimpose the economic pressure Iran faced before the nuclear deal — but they probably won’t be able to.
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A picture taken on August 3, 2017 shows Sudanese foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour (L) attending a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart (unseen) in the capital Khartoum. / AFP PHOTO / Ashraf SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images) Sudan Hopes for Sanctions Repeal as Deadline Looms
Khartoum hopes to get a permanent lifting of sanctions now that it’s playing ball with Washington in the fight on terror.
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An Iranian woman walks past a mural depicting a revolver bearing the colours of the US national flag and spread on the wall of the former US embassy in Tehran, on September 2, 2015, during the inauguration ceremony of a memorial plaque bearing one hundred anti-American comments made by the Islamic republic's late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini outside the embassy. The leader of the Islamic revolution dubbed the United States the "Great Satan" on account of its policies and support for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last royal ruler before the Islamic republic was founded. AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images) Iran Nuclear Deal Critics Push Plan for ‘Global Economic Embargo’
Memo outlines a “21st century financial version of Kennedy’s Cuba quarantine.”
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US President Donald Trump (L) speaks to the press with Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (R) on August 11, 2017, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump said Friday that he was considering options involving the US military as a response to the escalating political crisis in Venezuela. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) The Case Against the Iranian Nuclear Deal Is One Big Lie
There’s no reason to trust any of the Trump administration’s criticisms of, or plans for replacing, the JCPOA.
