List of U.S. Economic Sanctions articles
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An unidentified rocket is displayed during a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang on April 15, 2017. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on April 15 saluted as ranks of goose-stepping soldiers followed by tanks and other military hardware paraded in Pyongyang for a show of strength with tensions mounting over his nuclear ambitions. / AFP PHOTO / Ed JONES (Photo credit should read ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images) Trump White House Stays Quiet as Russia Flouts North Korea Sanctions
The administration is concerned that Russia is doing more business with the nuclear-armed Kim regime, but it hasn’t said anything publicly yet.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrive to attend a press conferece after their talks in Moscow on April 12, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after complaining of worsening ties with Donald Trump's administration as the two sides spar over Syria. Putin received Tillerson at the Kremlin along with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after the top diplomats held several hours of talks dominated by the fallout of an alleged chemical attack in Syria. / AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) Senators Push For Russia Sanctions While White House Conducts ‘Review’
Lawmakers from both parties want to ratchet up pressure on Moscow but the White House is studying whether existing sanctions are working.
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An Airbus A321 airliner arrives at the Mehrabad international airport during the delivery of the first batch of planes to the Iranian state airline Iran Air in the capital Tehran on Jaunary 12, 2017. The aircraft arrived as part of an order for 100 other Airbus planes with a list price of around $20 billion (19 billion euros) on December 22, placed after the lifting of international sanctions on the Islamic republic. It will be used for internal flights landed at Tehran's Mehrabad airport. / AFP / ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images) Boeing’s Iran Deal Puts Trump in Tough Spot
Boeing’s agreement to sell planes to Iran forces Trump to choose between two campaign promises.
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Members of Iran's Assembly of Experts, Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi (up-R) and head of the Guardian Council, Ahmad Jannati (up-C), attend a session to appoint a new chairman on March 10, 2015 in Tehran. The Assembly of Experts, the clerics who appoint and can dismiss the country's supreme leader, picked the ultraconservative Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi as their new chairman in a surprise appointment. AFP PHOTO / BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images) Why Trump’s Iran Sanctions Waiver Should Worry the Mullahs
Trump may not have blown up the Iran nuclear deal just yet, but that doesn't mean he's going soft on Iran.
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rouhani Rouhani Goes to War Against Iran’s Deep State
Iran's president is vying for votes by attacking the country's unelected institutions. But votes might not be what decides the election.
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QOM, IRAN: Iranian clergymen watch a Shahab-3 long-range ballistic missile fird by Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the desert outside the holy city of Qom, 02 November 2006. The Islamic republic fired its longer-range missile on exercise for the first time today as it began 10 days of war games amid a mounting standoff with the West over its nuclear programme. The hardline Revolutionary Guards fired the missiles, which have a range of up to 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) -- sufficient to threaten US bases in the Gulf -- during the first phase of the manoeuvres in the central desert, state television reported. AFP PHOTO/FARS NEWS (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Keeps the Iran Deal Alive, For Now
The U.S. renews sanctions relief for Iran even as it imposes new penalties in a ‘waive-and-slap” policy.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 10: South Korea's new President Moon Jae-In speaks during his presidential inauguration ceremony at National Assembly on May 10, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. Moon Jae-in of Democratic Party, was elected as the new president of South Korea in the election held on May 9, 2017. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) Will South Korea’s New President Foil Trump’s Attempt to Pressure North Korea?
Putting real pressure on Pyongyang requires deft management of a complicated alliance.
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This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 26, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) attending the combined fire demonstration of the services of the Korean People's Army in celebration of its 85th founding anniversary at the airport of eastern front. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. / (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) The Maximum Financial-Pressure Strategy for North Korea
The Trump administration wants to place "secondary sanctions" on North Korea. Here's how to do it.
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mnuchs United States Sanctions Hundreds For Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
The action is nothing if not sweeping.
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putin crop Forget Sanctions: Exxon Would Like Access to Russian Oil Anyway
Because Russia just doesn’t loom large enough already in Washington.
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An Iranian military truck carries parts of the S300 missile system during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the start of Iran's 1980-1988 war with Iraq, on September 21, 2016, in the capital Tehran. / AFP / CHAVOSH HOMAVANDI (Photo credit should read CHAVOSH HOMAVANDI/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Mulls Squeezing Iran With Tougher Sanctions
The White House is considering ramping up existing sanctions to hold Tehran’s feet to the fire.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) shakes hands on January 14, 2015 with US State Secretary John Kerry in Geneva. Zarif said on January 14 that his meeting with his US counterpart was vital for progress on talks on Tehran's contested nuclear drive. Under an interim deal agreed in November 2013, Iran's stock of fissile material has been diluted from 20 percent enriched uranium to five percent, in exchange for limited sanctions relief. AFP PHOTO / POOL / RICK WILKING (Photo credit should read RICK WILKING/AFP/Getty Images) Dear Senators: Push Back Against Iran, but Not at the Expense of the Nuclear Deal
Members of Congress considering new Iran sanctions legislation should have open eyes regarding the Trump administration's attitude toward the nuclear deal.
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uh oh A Turkish Banker’s Arrest Puts Spotlight on Erdogan’s Circle at Awkward Time
The U.S. arrested the Turkish executive and charged him with colluding in a multimillion-dollar scheme to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions.
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This photo illustration taken on January 6, 2017 shows Chinese 100 yuan notes in Beijing China just raised the exchange rate for the yuan against the US dollar by 0.92 percent from the previous day, the biggest one-day increase in more than 11 years. / AFP / FRED DUFOUR (Photo credit should read FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images) Economic Coercion, with a Chinese Twist
China has begun increasingly relying on economic coercion to pressure its neighbors and threaten U.S. interests in the Pacific.
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gettyimages-644030696 Don’t Forget the Russia Sanctions Are Russia’s Fault
Three years ago, Vladimir Putin took his own country down the road to pariah status.
