A US congressional panel passed a bill Friday that would impose sanctions on those responsible for human rights abuses against anti-government protesters in Venezuela.
The US and Europe are set to slap new sanctions on Russia as early as Monday over the crisis in Ukraine where tensions spiked over the kidnapping of a team of international observers.
Britain is holding a Chinese national who is wanted in the United States on suspicion of conspiring to evade a goods export ban, London police said Saturday.
Tehran, YJC. Rouhani has said during the past few years there were those in the country who pretended to be circumventing Western sanctions while they actually “circumvented national interests.”
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin will meet top managers of the country's biggest industrial enterprises to discuss the means to overcome potential economic sanctions
of the West.
US authorities are investigating the French banks Societe Generale, BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole for embezzlement and violating American sanctions against other countries, a source close to the matter said Friday.
Tehran, YJC. A European Union court ruling to remove the EU sanctions against 11 managers of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) has been finalized, an Iranian official says.
Tehran, YJC. French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici has brushed off criticism by US officials regarding a French business delegation's visit to Iran.
US President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to protect diplomatic advances that brought Iran to the table for nuclear talks from Congress' attempts to slap more sanctions on Tehran.