Can Pompeo trap a future President Biden in Trump’s self-imposed Iran crisis?
Regime change proponents are trying to use an expiring arms embargo to prevent the next president from reentering the Iran nuclear deal.
Regime change proponents are trying to use an expiring arms embargo to prevent the next president from reentering the Iran nuclear deal.
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies gives Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo the ammo they need to see to it that Iran sees no relief during the COVID-19 crisis.
The U.S. sanctions that are contributing to the misery and death of Iranians are meant to save them … or something.
Sudan’s response to the coronavirus has been one bright spot in this ongoing pandemic. But it’s not out of the woods yet, and some say U.S. sanctions are preventing it from winning the fight.
The Trump administration isn’t relenting on its ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on Iran because it exists to create a humanitarian crisis.
This crisis is exposing just how senseless Washington’s approach to Pyongyang has been for the last seventy years, and why it must change as soon as possible.
The Trump administration claims to support Iranian citizens, but it won’t put its anti-Iran hysteria on hold for a minute to help them out amid a pandemic.
Iran has asked the International Monetary Fund for help combatting the coronavirus. But the U.S. needs to approve and it’s unclear what the Trump administration will do.
Not only are U.S. sanctions preventing Iran access to needed medical goods amid the coronavirus pandemic, but they’re also restricting the Iran from offering economic and social relief.
Crippling U.S. sanctions are severely impeding Iranian efforts to combat the coronavirus, compelling Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to ask the United Nations for help.
United Against a Nuclear Iran is naming and shaming pharmaceutical companies despite having special licenses to sell medicine to Iran.
There is a growing number of nationalist, anti-government independents in Iran who refuse to affiliate with either reformists or hardliners and the U.S. ‘maximum pressure’ campaign isn’t helping them.
U.S. and international sanctions have crushed North Korea’s health care system, making it harder to deal with the coronavirus.
Given this administration’s track record, perhaps making it more difficult to send humanitarian goods into Iran was the point.
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s new foreign policy initiative includes a measure to rein in the executive branch’s misuse of economic sanctions.
The U.S. commitment to Iraq’s economic development has been underwhelming which has made Iranian trade and investment ties in Iraq appear disproportionately significant.
It is in the interest of the region, Europe, and the world to help Iran succeed in managing the economic fallout from Trump’s sanctions.
One well-established principle of sanctions policy is that the country or group imposing the sanctions must be prepared to take yes for an answer.
Beware of “isolationism” charges and the quest for more sanctions.