... required. This might include introducing retaliatory sanctions against American companies if sanctions against European companies are introduced. The EU is not ready for such drastic measures.
If history is any guide, it is counter-productive to threat Iran with sanctions and military force: this approach does not work. In recent weeks Washington and Tehran signalized that dialogue is possible, but it is unlikely to be successful. The statements Trump and his team are making towards Iran – including that of ...
... the framework of the meeting: current dynamics of the sanctions regime of the Western countries towards Russia and prospects for the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, the issues of the EU-the U.S. relations in connection with the situation around Iran, possible measures and mechanisms for mitigating sanctions, as well as scenarios for the development of foreign policy economic instruments in the U.S., EU, Russia, and China.
Leading scientists and experts in the area of international relations, world economy, conflict resolution, as well as representatives ...
... involvement of Congress in the sanctions policy against Iran. The US again attempted to internationalize this policy by encouraging its allies to join the sanctions. In 1996, the US Congress adopted the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act, which was renamed the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) in 2006 as it no longer applied to Libya. The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010, which amended the ISA, sought to prevent Iran from financing terrorism as well as its own nuclear, chemical, bacteriological ...
... Iranians hailed this historic milestone. Crowds cheering the accord spilled into the streets of Iranian cities. This was Rouhani's finest hour. However, he and his supporters instilled too much hope in the Iranian population as to the lifting of the sanctions. The Iranians came to believe that the signing of the JCPOA meant immediate changes for the better.
In reality, the sanctions proved much more difficult to get rid of. The process turned out to be protracted and controversial.
Foreign companies had their own ...
... nuclear issue and in the area of the Syrian conflict resolution,
noted
the effectiveness of cooperation between Russia and Iran. In other words, the last meeting can be regarded as Moscow's response to Washington's threats against Iran.
The feeling that Iran and Russia are in the same sanctions boat
appeared
in 2014 after the accession of the Crimea. As the U.S. pressure increased, the consolidation of the sides based on the counteraction to Washington only intensified. An attempt to bring collective anti-Americanism to a new level ...
... Iran is dealing with North Korea,”
Trump stated
. Rhetorically, this allows Washington to fall back on the axis-of-evil vocabulary. Furthermore, Trump also said in his statement that the previous U.S. administration had partially lifted the anti-Iranian sanctions just as the regime was about to collapse; therefore, reinstating the sanctions now appears to be a logical move aimed at correcting President Obama’s mistakes.
It should be noted that Iran has done a much better job at halvanizing the public’s ...
... the large volume of the American market. Any 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 States it is commonly believed that sanctions helped bring Iran to the negotiating table.
In the same form the sanctions were applied against Russia. The US hits as much as possible against refinancing of the Russian debt, blocks supplies for the raw materials industries and actively manipulates the reputation ...
... peaceful regime change in Tehran.
Abdolrasool Divsallar:
Judging the Effects: The Shaping Iranian Perspective on JCPOA and Trump's Options
The harsh rhetoric of the White House and the State Department is accompanied by the regular introduction of new sanctions against Iran. In 2017, almost every month, the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and President Trump
imposed sanctions
against companies and individuals involved in the development of the Iranian missile program related to the Islamic Revolutionary ...
... and export indicators had almost reached the levels promised by the government. Yet it looks like without the inflow of international investment into the sector, any higher altitudes of production are not reachable for Iran. Exhausted by the years of sanctions, Iran’s energy industry needs immense investment and technological renewal along the whole chain from oil and gas exploration, to their refining and electricity generation.
Perhaps Iran’s November 2016
decision
to participate in OPEC’s oil production ...
... aggressive options against JCPOA will probably lead to following Iranian moves:
1. Transforming effectiveness as the cornerstone of Iranian approach to JCPOA limits future US options, which are based on putting more pressure on Iran by adding new surrogate sanctions. This is due to Iranian readiness to use deal terms to prove US failure in effective relief and mark it as violation. Enforcing new sanctions on other areas like human rights or Iran's regional policies with regard to JCPOA effectiveness, would be considered violation ...
