TEHRAN, May 25 - The secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement says the latest round of sanctions by the United States and a number of its Persian Gulf Arab allies against the leadership of the group will have no effect and will not harm its officials at all.
TEHRAN, May 23 - The Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned the US for imposing sanctions on the chief of the country’s Central Bank, saying the move shows Washington attaches no value to its international obligations.
TEHRAN, May 23 - France has criticized the US for scrapping the Iran nuclear deal and resorting, instead, to a policy of pressure and sanctions against the country, warning that such an approach could further destabilize the restive Middle East region.
TEHRAN, May 20 - France says it is weighing possible ways that could help the European Union compensate European companies that might be facing sanctions by the United States for doing business with Iran following Washington's withdrawal from a key 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and major world powers.
TEHRAN, May 17 -Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, has delayed further debates on a bill that would criminalize compliance with Western sanctions.
TEHRAN, May 15 - The US has imposed sanctions against governor of Iran's central bank Valiollah Seif and Iraq-based Al-Bilad Islamic Bank for transferring “millions of dollars" for Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
TEHRAN, May 10 - Police in Kazakhstan have reportedly detained dozens of anti-government protesters staging unauthorized rallies across the Central Asian country.
TEHRAN, May 9 - Boeing said Tuesday it will follow US government policy on sales to Iran after Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
TEHRAN, April 21 - In an interview to CBS, Iran's Fomreign Minister asserted that in case US maintains its sanctions against Iran, then Iran will resume its nuclear activity with a higher speed.
TEHRAN, April 05 -The United States plans to sanction Russian oligarchs this week under a law targeting Moscow for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, in what could be the most aggressive move so far against Russia’s business elite.
TEHRAN, April 03 - The United Nations has blacklisted a North Korean ship for receiving oil in an October transfer that breached U.N. sanctions, as first revealed by Reuters.
TEHRAN, March 22 - US President Donald Trump is poised to unveil sanctions against China Thursday for the "theft" of US intellectual property, a White House official said, teeing up a second potential confrontation in as many months.
TEHRAN, March 19 - Germany's government is rejecting the idea that former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder should face sanctions over his links to Russian business and to President Vladimir Putin.
TEHRAN, March 7 - South Korea will continue imposing sanctions on North Korea, despite warmer relations between the two states which agreed to hold an inter-Korean summit for the first time in more than a decade.
TEHRAN, February 8 - The European Commission has defended a plan to impose sanctions on Britain during the Brexit transition period if the UK engages in “foul play” against EU wishes.
TEHRAN, January 30 - The United Nations Children’s Fund has warned that hundreds of thousands of children could starve as a result of sanctions on North Korea. UNICEF said the inability of humanitarian staff to deliver aid there had put many children in lethal malnutrition condition.
TEHRAN, January 27 - French President Emmanuel Macron has called for increasing European Union (EU) sanctions on Venezuela, just over a week after the 28-nation bloc, which has sided with the Latin American state’s opposition in its anti-government struggles, slapped a fresh series of bans against Caracas.
TEHRAN, January 18 - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the United Nations to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia's military leaders, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who also serves as the defense minister, over atrocities committed in the war on Yemen.
TEHRAN, January 18 - The European Union has decided to include some senior Venezuelan officials in its sanctions blacklist over an ongoing political conflict in the country, sources within the bloc have indicated.
TEHRAN, January 10 - An Iranian nuclear official said that the country is capable of multiplying the pace of its nuclear activities specially in enrichment field, compared to the time when an international deal on its nuclear program had not yet been concluded, implying that that will happen if the United States violates the deal.