... likely include the “Russian trace.” It might be diluted with other traditional evil-wishers like China, North Korea and Iran, but the main question is how exactly the sanctions will be calibrated to the scope of the alleged foreign interference identified.... ... sanctions against Russia both by the Congress (the DASKAA bill) and by the Administration (based on PL 102-82 of 1991). The European Union could hardly have avoided the new wave of sanctions, especially since Brussels expressed solidarity with Great ...
... the national economy, Russia is a major power that can adapt to the sanctions and even isolate the Americans as they attempt to stifle their adversary. How can this be done?
Ivan Timofeev:
A Pyrrhic Victory: the History of the Sanctions War Against Iran
First, the new sanctions are mostly a consequence of a domestic political divide and political struggles in the United States itself rather than strictly anything Moscow has done. There have been no fundamental changes in Russian foreign policy, ...
On August 7, new US sanctions against Iran came into force. The European Union declared its intention to block them in order to protect European companies working in Tehran. Can this policy be successful? What are the prospects of the US-EU and US-Iran confrontation and what does the future hold for the fragile Iranian ...
There are also ‘icons’ among the target countries that have more or less adapted to life under long-term sanctions rather than abandoning policies. Iran, one such target country, has unparalleled experience of living under sanctions
The history of sanctions against Iran deserves close analysis in light of the growing sanctions pressure on Russia. Although Iran and Russia are different countries ...
... importance as a power to be reckoned with globally.
Moscow’s engagement with the West on issues such as Ukraine, Syria, or Iranian and North Korean nuclear matters is geared to these priorities.
With the Minsk II agreement of February 2015, Moscow ... ... EU-imposed sanctions and restoring a modicum of economic relations with Western Europe.
Russia also hoped that developments in the European Union, including Brexit and elections in France, would lead to a less Atlanticist, less Russoskeptic EU. These hopes ...
... Hamas, among other “terrorist” groups, including the Islamic State — in addition to accusing Qatar of working closely with Iran.
Saudi Arabia’s 13 demands on Qatar — with Turkey backing up Qatar — appear eerily reminiscent of Austro-Hungarian ... ... and Crimea?
What should be done about refugee crisis from eastern Ukraine to Russia and from Syria and other countries to the European Union countries? How should Russia and the European Union respond?
Impact of rise of China
China is the elephant in the ...
....-Armenia agenda, and will likely remain so — regardless of who enters the White House next January.
With regards to the European Union, Armenia will finally conclude and sign the new framework document to replace the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement ... ... swan” capable of altering future scenarios for Armenia — both domestically, regionally, and internationally — is Iran. Provided that all relevant parties remain satisfied with the implementation of JCPOA, signed in 2015, Iran will eventually ...
... Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano
confirmed that Iran had completed the necessary preparatory steps
to start the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (link in Russian). This was followed by an announcement by the European Union stating that it had lifted the sanctions against Iran in full. The United States followed suit by partially lifting sanctions against the country.
It is worth noting here that this day came far sooner than many analysts had predicted. Tehran has taken quick and active steps to satisfy all the requirements ...
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Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani has stated
that the priority is to provide the population of Iran with gas. Secondly,
at this stage Iran does not have the appropriate infrastructure
for large-scale exports of gas to Europe. Thirdly, most of Iran’s gas exports are controlled by the Revolutionary Guards, an organisation which on the one hand does not meet the European Union’s transparency requirements and on the other always tries to retain complete control over projects in which it is involved. Fourthly, following the lifting of sanctions Iran will be in a position to start building
a long-planned ...
The group of six international mediators (the USA, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China and Germany) and Iran reached a preliminary framework agreement on the “nuclear dossier” on 2 April 2015 in Lausanne.
According to this document
, the parties commit to reach a comprehensive agreement by 30 June 2015 entailing a complete lifting of the international ...
