Tag: Sanctions

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (unseen) during a meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on December 20, 2019.

White House official: New Iran sanctions coming ‘very soon’

Zach Halaschak · May 8, 2019 5:15 pm

The nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sits pier side at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va., Wednesday April 27, 2016.

Trump sending Navy strike group to Middle East to send ‘message’ to Iran

Zach Halaschak · May 6, 2019 1:35 am

In this file photo Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, and released by the International Iran Photo Agency, Iranian technicians work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. In a major setback to Iran's nuclear program, technicians will have to unload fuel from the country's first atomic power plant because of an unspecified safety concern, a senior government official said.

Energy and Environment

Pompeo announces new sanctions on Iran’s nuclear power complex

John Siciliano · May 4, 2019 2:12 pm

Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, from left, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., confer after questioning Attorney General William Barr about special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2019.

National Security

Lindsey Graham on Venezuela: ‘Where is our aircraft carrier?’

Diana Stancy Correll · May 3, 2019 5:04 pm

President Donald Trump pauses while speaking at a rally at Resch Center Complex in Green Bay, Wis., Saturday, April 27, 2019.

Trump’s the only one making sense on Iran

Washington Examiner · May 3, 2019 4:09 pm

In this Dec. 13, 2009 photo, Iraqi laborers work at the Rumaila oil refinery in Zubair near the city of Basra, Iraq.

Saudis may have more oil on hand to help avoid price spikes as Iran sanctions kick in

John Siciliano · May 1, 2019 8:04 pm

President Trump speaks during a briefing with state and local officials.

Trump threatens embargo, sanctions against Cuba

Diana Stancy Correll · April 30, 2019 10:02 pm

From left to right, front line, Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela's socialist party boss and president of the National Constituent Assembly speaks to first lady Cilia Flores, as Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks to Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez and on the right corner Admiral Remigio Ceballos, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Strategic Operational Command during the tenth anniversary celebration of the Bolivarian militia in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, April 13, 2019.

Pompeo: Maduro loyalists looking for ‘golden ticket’ out of regime

Joel Gehrke · April 29, 2019 3:51 pm

President Donald Trump welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the White House in Washington, Friday, April 26, 2019.

Energy and Environment

Trump and Japanese leader talk energy ahead of Iran oil deadline

John Siciliano · April 26, 2019 9:42 pm

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer leaves the stage after speaking at the 9th China Business Conference at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AmCham China are hosting the event. The U.S. has threatened to impose tariffs on $150 billion of Chinese goods in retaliation for what it argues are Beijing's unfair trade practices and its requirement that U.S. companies turn over technology in exchange for access to its market. China has said it would subject $50 billion of U.S. goods to tariffs if the U.S. taxes its products. A delegation led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Lighthizer and trade adviser Peter Navarro will visit Beijing for negotiations later this week.

US threatens China with tariffs for intellectual property violations

Sean Higgins · April 25, 2019 3:35 pm

An oil tanker is filled at the Jose Antonio Anzoategui Petroleum Complex in the Anzoategui State in Venezuela, August 24, 2004.

Energy and Environment

Trump’s sanctions could knock out Venezuela oil production indefinitely

John Siciliano · April 24, 2019 9:03 pm

Vladimir Putin of Russia and Kim Jong Un of North Korea are shown.

Kim Jong Un meeting Putin to seek protection from US sanctions

Joel Gehrke · April 24, 2019 8:23 pm