Reuters
March 6, 2022
WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) – The sanctions imposed on Russia over its Ukraine invasion have nothing to do with a potential nuclear deal with Iran, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday, after Russia’s demand a day before on written guarantees from Washington that its punitive measures won’t harm cooperation on […]
EU to sanction Iran militia, police, three entities over 2019 protests, diplomats say
March 31, 2021 by
By Robin Emmott, John Irish
BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union will target eight Iranian militia and police commanders and three state entities with sanctions next week over a deadly crackdown in November 2019 by Iranian authorities, three diplomats said on Wednesday.
The travel bans and asset freezes will be the first time the EU has imposed sanctions on […]
Iran’s Biggest Threat Has Nothing to Do With Trump
April 19, 2018 by
By Golnar Motevalli, Bloomberg Businessweek
April 18, 2018,
Ahmad, who runs an advertising agency in a busy commercial district of Tehran, has given up trying to get a business loan from any of the dozens of lenders just a short walk from his office.
Finding a bank in Iran is easy. The challenge is finding one that will […]
EU extends Iran human rights sanctions by a year
April 13, 2018 by
DW, April 12
The measures were first passed in 2011 in response to government repression during and after Iran’s 2009 election. The European Union is set to discuss whether it should pass new sanctions at a meeting next Monday.
On Thursday, the European Union prolonged sanctions against Iran for its human rights record until 2019.
The […]
Sanctions Targeting Iranian Human Rights Abusers are Right, Not Radical
October 16, 2015 by
Sheryl Saperia
14th October 2015 – The Canadian Jewish News
On September 23rd, Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson announced that the Conservatives, if re-elected, would amend the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) to include gross human rights abuses as new grounds for Canadian sanctions against foreign states, entities and individuals. Whoever forms the next federal government should […]
Opinion: Little to show after the yearlong talks with Iran
December 17, 2014 by
December 08, 2014, 05:00 pm
Little to show after the yearlong talks with Iran
By Majid Sadeghpour
The West seems to have learned little – sadly very little – in its dealings with Iran’s Ayatollahs. In the past and recently, the Iranian regime has played a waiting game: offer a little, stall a while, offer less, stall more, all […]
