BREAKING Trump Imposes New Economic Sanctions on Iran

[DonViejo]

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 nation’s 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]

1. And the financial middle men cheered! Lots of money to be made shuffling money around.

[Botany]

2. "Never can Iran have a nuclear weapon."

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]

6. He broke the treaty, now wants to spank Iran harder

The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is a major lying, cheating jerk off. How republican is that?

[Botany]

10. KY's Rep. John Yarmouth said the same thing today

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]

3. He's such a dick. He can't just impose sanctions, he has to trash our last real POTUS.

And he lies - of course - about the money Iran got back. It was their fucking money!!!! Geez, I hate him.

[Historic NY]

4. Gaslighting of America.......

[duforsure]

5. Is he trying to manipulate the market

By causing swings with these policies announcements for himself or others?

[MarcA]

7. Which nations will obey the sanctions and which won't?

Is it only the U.S.?

[former9thward]

11. The sanctions involve any country using the U.S. banking system.

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]

12. Thank you. Google seems to give varying answers

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.

[Magoo48]

8. Let's hope the relatively sane nations ignore Agent Orange.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Iran is now on double secret probation.