Iran Sanctions

The Biden-Harris administration gave the Iranian regime access to $200 billion in oil revenues through lax sanctions enforcement, according to a report Monday in the Washington Free Beacon, citing new government data.

The governments of India and Iran announced a decade-long agreement on Tuesday that would give India control and allow it to develop the port of Chabahar, a stop on the Gulf of Oman that offers India a favorable route to the Persian Gulf.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Chevron CEO Mike Wirth stated that despite all the sanctions on Russia, “Russian oil kept coming into the market.” And that “The sanctions that were imposed on Iran have not been enforced.” Wirth

Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei celebrated the demise of “the arrogant power of America” in a speech in Tehran on Monday, the 22nd anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the U.S. homeland by radical Muslim terrorists.

“Israel believes that going back to the old agreement will pave Iran’s path to a nuclear arsenal,” the statement from Netanyahu’s office read.

The United States is ready to begin negotiating with Iran in an attempt to reestablish the 2015 nuclear deal or something like it, Secretary of State Antony Blinken relayed to counterparts Thursday in a video conference call with France, Germany, and the U.K.

The United States has threatened to impose sanctions against any individual or entity that contributes to Iran’s conventional weapons program while rejecting the expiration of a United Nations arms embargo on Tehran.

The Iranian regime blasted President Donald Trump for his “repulsive and hypocritical” offer of assistance on Friday in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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The sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump on Iran have more than erased the benefits given by President Barack Obama under the nuclear deal, according to numbers presented by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

Wednesday while speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) weighed in on the recently announced additional sanctions against Iran in response to their attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil. Graham said Iran needs to be “dealt with firmly,”

Iran in recent days captured the third foreign tanker in the Persian Gulf in less than a month amid intensifying tensions with the United States, Iranian state media reported over the weekend.

The founder of the Black Entertainment Television (BET) cable network on Tuesday commended U.S. President Donald Trump’s unprecedented wave of sanctions that have crippled the Iranian economy, urging Europeans to join him.

Iranian officials announced on Monday that the Islamic regime continues to violate the terms in the nuclear deal brokered during the Obama era, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shot back at the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Summit in Washington, DC.

Financially troubled Iran has adopted a new law to allow death row inmates to “voluntarily” offer their organs “before or after execution” to potential buyers looking for a transplant, the Telegraph reported over the weekend.

Iranian officials complained that U.S. sanctions against the country’s economy are having an adverse effect on the population’s health, state media reported Tuesday.

The unprecedented wave of economic sanctions imposed on Iran by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is “on track” to reduce Tehran’s coffers by “$50 billion” in oil revenue alone, the American special representative for the Islamic Republic told reporters on Friday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif this week demanded that the United States pull its troops out of the Persian Gulf region, arguing that such a move is “fully in line” with the interest of America and the world.

Iran announced Thursday it would not stamp the passports of foreign tourists to help the Islamic Republic withstand the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s historically crippling sanctions, which have reportedly harmed the country’s tourism industry.

The new Huawei campus, called Ox Horn, consists of replicas of well-known palaces and castles in Europe. It even has a Versailles.

Media analysts and Obama administration officials are working overtime to blame President Donald Trump for Iran’s decision, announced Wednesday, to breach key limitations on its nuclear operations that Teheran had accepted in 2015 in the framework of the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), otherwise known as the nuclear dea

The White House announced on Monday that it would terminate waivers from U.S. sanctions granted to some of Iran’s biggest oil customers, in a major step towards the administration’s goal of reducing Iranian oil exports to zero.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday succeeded in officially labeling Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), a move his administration has reportedly considered soon after taking office in 2017 as part of efforts to neutralize Tehran’s influence and constrain its aggression in the Middle East and beyond.

United States prosecutors said on Thursday that classified information gathered under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will be introduced in the federal trial of Chinese telecom company Huawei, which has been charged with committing money laundering, bank fraud, and wire fraud in the course of violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is closely eyeing efforts in Europe to set up an alternative money payment channel to ease doing business with Iran and avoid running afoul of sanctions the U.S. has levied on the Islamic republic.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday said US sanctions will have no impact on the policies of the Islamic republic at home or abroad.

A “young pious generation” of Iranians are developing cutting-edge technology in the missile, drone, and radar industries, the country’s Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh declared on Thursday.

The Chinese government has said little about its reasons for arresting Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor this week, but on Thursday, the state-run Global Times published an editorial explicitly framing the arrests as revenge for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

Iran test-fired a medium-range ballistic missile over the weekend capable of carrying a nuclear payload to parts of Europe, Israel, and anywhere else in the Middle East, a top U.S. Department of State (DOS) official stressed Monday, arguing the move violates a United Nations resolution.

At a press briefing on Tuesday hosted by spokeswoman Heather Nauert, the State Department emphasized how much support Iran provides to terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton was described by an Iran foreign ministry spokesman on Wednesday as a “chronic sadist” with an anti-Iran grudge who deserves to be taught “a lesson.”

Iranian Rear Admiral Mahmoud Mousavi on Monday responded to U.S. warnings that Iran’s oil tankers are a “floating liability” by promising to protect them with military force.

Russia and South Korea both announced plans this week to continue doing business with Iran despite the heavier round of U.S. sanctions that went into effect on November 5.

National of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan denied Wednesday that he ever led chants of “Death to America” while on a solidarity trip to Iran, claiming that he had merely asked how to pronounce the phrase in Farsi.

Chinese officials and state-run media denounced the new round of U.S. sanctions against Iran after they took effect on Monday, accusing the Trump administration of “bullying” Tehran and vowing to continue purchases of Iranian oil.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday lauded President Donald Trump’s “courageous, determined and important decision” to reimpose sanctions on Iran, saying the move was a direct result of his own efforts against the deal.