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Iran and Russia could start using cryptocurrencies to avoid Western sanctions, Russian news portal RBC reported yesterday, May 17.
Statute forbids EU companies complying with US sanctions
In the days following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, Iran's European customers continue to buy Iranian oil and are in no immediate rush to replace volumes, but some refiners and traders have flagged financing issues as having the p
While we now know that Trump will announce a US withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal, the question is all about the nuance: how will the president frame the US exit, and whether Iran will be allowed to continue its oil exports after the US is no lon
The bank account of FIDE, a premier chess organization that governs some major international chess competitions, maintains rules adhered to at many other tournaments, calculates players' ratings, and awards titles such as Grandmaster, was shut down
It seems if Washington will want to cut Russia off they will need to get another CEO in there because the current one won't do it
With Economic Sanctions...Madeline Albright, who served as Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, worked to impose brutal economic sanctions on the Iraqi people causing hundreds of thousands of children to starve to death as a direct result
President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as "int
Will Hit Russia With More Sanctions Monday So much can change in just 2 weeks.
What was previewed earlier this week in a trial balloon clearly meant to burnish the Trump administration's anti-Russia bona fides has now become a reality.
This week the U.S. Treasury Department issued guidelines on how the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) could add cryptocurrency addresses to the country's sanction list.
sanctions -Unilaterally imposed US sanctions on other countries are flagrantly illegal.
The Trump administration may actually be playing directly into the regime's hands.
The Trump administration may actually be playing directly into the regime's hands.
The Trump administration may actually be playing directly into the regime's hands.
The Trump administration may actually be playing directly into the regime's hands.
Update III: After the White House said earlier that today's meeting would be a "listening" meeting, President Trump has taken investors by surprise by announcing that he will impose the long-rumored aluminum and steel sanctions next week.
Although 19-year-old Ryom Tae Ok and 25-year-old Kim Ju Sik didn't medal at the Winter Olympics in South Korea, they wowed the crowd with their personalities and their figure-skating performance.
"Collins is now demanding that Facebook and Twitter produce the results required or face the consequences..."
"He said that the sanctions regime has created an 'objective need' for cryptocurrencies."
If sanctions fail to fulfill their main goal and create perverse consequences, why are they still in place?
Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab, who is also involved in Special Counsel Mueller's investigation, has been released from federal prison and given immunity, and will be the star witness at a trial over a scheme to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran.
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Saudi Arabia's foreign minister urged the international community to slap fresh sanctions against Iran Thursday, accusing its arch-regional rival of supporting terrorism.
On Tuesday, all but two Members of the US House voted in favor of the "harshest" sanctions on North Korea yet. As we know from past practice with sanctions -- in Iraq and elsewhere -- they never achieve their goals, but they do punish civilians and t
Following yesterday's anticlimatic Rex Tillerson press conference in which the Secretary of State was expected, by some, to make an important announcement only to disappoint, moments ago National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on CNN that "the p
After fifty years of imposing embargoes and other sanctions, the United States never managed to topple Cuba's communist regime.
Recently, US Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin stated, "If China doesn't follow these sanctions [against North Korea], we will put additional sanctions on them and prevent them from accessing the US and international dollar system."
Following Treasury Secretary Mnuchin's threat that the US could impose economic sanctions on China if it does not implement the new sanctions regime against North Korea:
If the Pentagon suddenly bombed North Korea, killing thousands of North Korean citizens, that would clearly be considered an act of war. Yet, when the U.S. government intentionally targets North Korea with economic sanctions that kill thousands of No
