... [
v
]. The EU authorities made declarations about the need for humanitarian exceptions [
vi
]. In the United States, Democratic candidate Joe Biden spoke about this as well [
vii
]. The US administration promptly released a list of exceptions to its sanctions, many of which were in place long before the pandemic. They concern Iran, Syria, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela and Russia [
viii
]. A joint US-Swiss relief supply channel for Iran has become operational [
ix
]. We saw the first transactions based on INSTEX, a long-awaited channel for humanitarian transactions with Iran created by Great Britain,...
... measures coexisted with the UN sanctions regime, large-scale unilateral and extraterritorial sanctions against Iran were imposed by the Americans and no one else. At the same time, the volume and political consequences of the US secondary sanctions over Iran are much stronger in comparison with sanctions over North Korea.
Over the past ten years, the US sanctions regime against Iran has been violated much more often compared with other sanctions. Iran accounts for 107 out of 312 violations, which were fined by the US Treasury Department. To put that in perspective,...
The new sanctions war against Iran has been unleashed, and there is no way of stopping it
Sanctions researchers and enforcers are acutely intrigued by the ... ... program Iran would be unable to obtain a nuclear weapon quickly. Consequently, it would not be able to follow in the footsteps of North Korea. Having developed nuclear warheads and means of delivery, the DPRK can negotiate from the position of strength. The ...
How likely is the escalation of US sanctions?
Pyongyang's testing of nuclear weapons naturally caused debate about a ... ... and Russian companies have already been subjected to US sanctions for their ties with North Korea. The Americans want to force China and Russia to show great energy in pressure... ... company can be faced with a choice: either the American market, or, for example, the Iranian one. Such a game was quite successful against Tehran. At least in the United...
