BREAKING Trump Imposes New Economic Sanctions on Iran
Source: The New York Times
By Edward Wong
June 24, 2019
WASHINGTON President Trump announced on Monday that he is imposing new sanctions on Iran, after saying for days that he preferred tightening the pressure on a crippled Iranian economy to launching an immediate military strike in retaliation for what American officials have said are recent aggressive acts by Tehran.
We will continue to increase pressure on Tehran, Mr. Trump said as he sat at his desk in the Oval Office preparing to sign an executive order. Never can Iran have a nuclear weapon.
He added that the order will bar Iranian leaders from access to financial instruments. The administration did not immediately elaborate.
The Trump administration already moved this spring to cut off all revenues from Iranian oil exports, the lifeblood of the nations economy, and the new sanctions are expected to be aimed at shutting down additional sources of income with the goal of forcing political change in Tehran.
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Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)That was just about word for word from the 1st sentence of the deal which Trump scrapped.
So he is putting sanctions on Iran because they are not living up to the deal that he dumped?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal_framework
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is a major lying, cheating jerk off. How republican is that?
Botany
(70,581 posts)I was wrong the Iran will never make a nuclear weapon was the 3rd line in the treaty that Trump dumped. He called Trump a moron today.
You do know that Trump is going get the old Obama/HRC/Kerry/Moniz back and call it a win.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)And he lies - of course - about the money Iran got back. It was their fucking money!!!! Geez, I hate him.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)By causing swings with these policies announcements for himself or others?
MarcA
(2,195 posts)Is it only the U.S.?
former9thward
(32,077 posts)Which is all Western countries and most countries of the world. To avoid the sanctions you can't use banks that interact with U.S. banks. So you are left with N. Korea and a few others.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)or at least some I couldn't figure out. Maybe this is one reason why
drumph is cozying up to North Korea. Be interesting to see the actions
of Western Countries if the administration continues with its shabby
treatment of them. Also, China is of interest. Well, I guess we can hope
for the best.