As the United States assembles a large military force for a potential strike on Iran, a PolitiFact reader asked us about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s recent comments that the U.S. engineered a ...

New Delhi: As protests continue to spread across Iranian cities, US President Donald Trump has stepped into the moment with warnings of possible military action. He insists that his intent is to help ...

Economic sanctions compliance in the United States runs on a strict-liability standard. In plain terms: you don’t have to mean to violate sanctions to be in violation. For businesses, banks, ...

Both the Biden and the Trump administrations have been expanding U.S. export controls (particularly regarding China) and promulgating new and comprehensive economic sanctions. To reflect the ...

Ten years after wide-ranging UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme were lifted under a landmark deal with world powers, the economic measures are likely to be reimposed Saturday evening. The ...

Already suffering a 40 percent inflation rate and critical shortages of power and water, many in Iran expect conditions to get worse. By Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi has lived and worked in Iran, has ...

OANDA examines how Western sanctions against Russia failed to achieve total economic collapse, instead creating a permanent geopolitical financial split, accelerating global de-dollarization, and ...

Book tour tickets and details here. Iran, protests, and sanctions Book tour tickets and details here. The recent protests in Iran are about so many things. Human rights, corruption, freedom. But this ...

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Britain, France and Germany have threatened to trigger a "snapback mechanism" to reintroduce UN sanctions over Tehran's atomic programme that were lifted under a now moribund 2015 Iran nuclear deal.