Tag: Sanctions

Protestors shouted at Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday as he delivered a speech to a group of students at the University of California, Los Angeles.

National Security

US sanctions Hezbollah officials working to aid Iran’s agriculture sector

Joel Gehrke · May 17, 2018 7:13 pm

Democrats Worry About U.S.-Europe Divide Over Iran Deal

Jenna Lifhits · May 16, 2018 9:48 pm

FILE - This Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, file photo shows French energy giant Total CEO, Christophe de Margerie, posing prior to a press conference held in Paris, France. The CEO of French oil giant Total SA was killed when his corporate jet collided with a snow removal machine Monday night at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, the company said. Total "confirms with deep regret and sadness" that Chairman and CEO Christophe de Margerie died in a private plane crash at the Moscow airport, the company said in a press release dated Tuesday and posted on its website. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)

French energy company abandons Iran project after US about-face

Joe Williams · May 16, 2018 2:26 pm

Iran's Central Bank Governor, Valiollah Seif, sits in an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran.

US sanctions head of Iran Central Bank

Melissa Quinn · May 15, 2018 6:11 pm

Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arrives for a cabinet meeting in London.

National Security

Europe prepares to fight US sanctions on Iran

Joel Gehrke · May 14, 2018 7:33 pm

Beltway Confidential

On ZTE, Trump drinks Xi’s communist kool-aid

Tom Rogan · May 14, 2018 3:32 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2012, file photo, a salesperson stands at counters selling mobile phones produced by ZTE Corp. at an appliance store in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Chinese tech company ZTE said Sunday, May 6, 2018 that it applied to the U.S. Commerce Department to suspend a seven-year ban on doing business with U.S. technology exporters

Trump working with Xi Jinping to salvage jobs at Chinese telecom giant ZTE

Katelyn Caralle · May 13, 2018 4:48 pm

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen greets House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, as she arrives for a House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 26, 2018.

National Security

Michael McCaul: Expect Iran to retaliate for leaving the nuclear agreement

Pete Kasperowicz · May 13, 2018 2:21 pm

President Donald Trump signs a Presidential Memorandum on the Iran nuclear deal from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Washington.

Business braces for fallout from Trump’s go-it-alone Iran strategy

Joe Williams · May 11, 2018 5:48 pm

Trump and Merkel discussed security challenges posed by North Korea and the conflicts in Syria, Yemen and Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Angela Merkel: Trump’s Iran deal exit ‘undermines trust in the international order’

Joel Gehrke · May 11, 2018 5:43 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a key member of the Banking Committee, expresses her opposition to a move in the Senate to pass legislation that would roll back some of the safeguards Congress put into place after a financial crisis rocked the nation's economy ten years ago, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Warren, who ran for office in the aftermath of the great recession in 2008, serves as ranking member of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection.

Fed accedes to Elizabeth Warren, will hold public vote on Wells Fargo punishment

Joseph Lawler · May 11, 2018 2:28 pm

It’s Come Undone

Reuel Marc Gerecht · May 11, 2018 8:00 am