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Iran's leadership boasts it is safe from U.S. military action, saying Washington knows an attack would find no world support and send oil prices skyrocketing. That confidence is buoying the government in its standoff with the West, despite new sanctions.
Britain applauded a U.S. decision Thursday to target Iran with banking sanctions, but many European financial institutions already curbed ties with Tehran and analysts said it wasn't clear whether others would rush to take similar steps.
The chief of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards shrugged off harsh new U.S. sanctions that are the most sweeping since 1979, saying "the corps is ready to defend the ideals of the revolution more than ever before."
Economic sanctions in place for decades haven't stopped Iran from pursuing nuclear ambitions the Bush administration says are a cover for a nuclear bomb or, if administration allegations are true, from funding terrorism across the Middle East.
The argument for broad economic sanctions against the repressive military regime in Myanmar seems clear-cut. The junta has reduced the population to desperate poverty, while brutally crushing any demonstrations of dissent.
Japan's Cabinet approved plans Tuesday to extend economic sanctions against North Korea, despite the communist state's agreement to disable its main nuclear complex by year's end, the Foreign Ministry said.
Less than 40 percent of U.N. member states have filed required reports on how they are complying with sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, the chairman of a monitoring committee said Thursday.
The United States has imposed sanctions on 14 foreign people, companies and government agencies, including the Syrian navy and air force, as it boosts efforts to stop transfers of advanced weaponry to and from Iran and Syria.
North Korea faces another round of sanctions for staging a nuclear test, but more punitive measures may not go far against an impoverished regime with little left to lose.
The U.N. Security Council is considering a broad range of new sanctions to punish North Korea for its nuclear test. Here is a look at details of the proposals, as well as current sanctions against the North.
The Bush administration has imposed sanctions against seven foreign companies, including two from India and two from Russia, after accusing them of business dealings with Iran involving sensitive technology, the government said Friday.
The European Union imposed $9.1 million in additional retaliatory sanctions against the United States on Monday in response to antidumping measures meant to protect U.S. companies. The World Trade Organization had declared the U.S. rules illegal.
President Bush ordered sanctions Thursday on four men accused of atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region where three years of conflict have left 180,000 dead.
Thousands of Iranians chanted "Death to America" and vowed not to yield to U.S. pressure over Iran's nuclear program at a demonstration on Sunday marking the 28th anniversary of the seizure of the American embassy.
The front-runner in the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Clinton, yesterday reacted to the Bush administration's announcement of tough new sanctions on the regime in Tehran with the statement, "I've been concerned for a long time over George Bush's sab …
Senator Barack Obama says he would "engage in aggressive personal diplomacy" with Iran if elected president and would offer economic inducements and a possible promise not to seek "regime change" if Iran stopped meddling in Iraq and cooperated on terrorism and nuclear iss …
Although the US has stepped up its sanctions on the Burmese regime by targeting business people known to have close links with the junta, several of the generals' cronies are missing from the list...
The lack of freedom in that country is unacceptable to Bush and he decided he could no longer stand idly by and let tame economic sanctions keep Cubans from enjoying liberty. So, he took decisive action and encouraged stricter sanctions.
Since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the Middle East has captured the attention of world leaders from every nation that have raised some serious questions.
The charges are frankly ridiculous, and certainly are so if proportionality is taken into account. That is, if one bomb was sold by an Iranian arms dealer to the Taliban for profit, a hundred bombs were given to the Taliban by Pakistan for tactical reasons.
"This is a warning shot across the bow, not that the U.S. is going to invade Iran, but that Iran has pushed the level of escalation, particularly inside Iraq, to unacceptable levels," said Anthony H.
Israel's regard for Palestinians can be summed up in how it imprisons and terrorises them, writes Khaled Amayreh in the occupied West Bank.
There is an enormous gap between the reasons Israel is giving for the decision to impose significant sanctions against Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip, and the real intentions behind them.
The Bush administration plans to roll out an unprecedented package of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the long-awaited designations of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and of the elite Quds Force as a supporter of t …
The US is ready to impose new sanctions on Iran which may lead to war according to this report by debka.
The United States and other nations will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday. Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech Sunday saying that the U.S. will not tolerate a nuclear Iran.
Bush ordered the Treasury Department today to freeze the financial assets of additional members of the repressive military junta. He also acted to tighten controls on U.S.
The opening of the meeting at Putin's country residence was cordial and correct, as shown on Russian state television. "France has been, is and, I hope, will continue to be one of our main partners in Europe and the world.
Republican presidential candidates said on Tuesday it may be necessary to attack Iran's nuclear facilities to prevent it from developing a bomb but the U.S. Congress should be consulted first.
More than 100 students scuffled with police and hardline supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday on Tehran University campus and chanted "Death to the dictator" outside a hall where the Iranian president spoke.
France is drawing up possible sanctions against the ruling junta in Myanmar — and oil giant Total SA would not be spared from any such penalties, the French foreign minister said Tuesday.
North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-il has welcomed South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun to Pyongyang for a historic summit.
Who trades with Burma? What excuses do they and our governments in the west have for doing so?
Why would Iran do this? This is no sign of a strong and confident country. Are they saving money for some other expense like nuclear material or war time survival?? Are they hoping to defuse the possible sanctions coming from the West??
President Bush today will announce additional sanctions against the military dictatorship in Burma to support the push for democracy in that Asian country, the White House said yesterday.
What is being hailed as the September of Discontent is coming to a close. What was supposed to be the month that we made the leap forward and brought the troops home is not going to be.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier opposes French calls for European Union sanctions against Iran. He will back up his case with German Foreign Ministry data showing that leading French and American companies are conducting large amounts of business with Iran.
It looks pretty likely now that Iran will soon become a nuclear power, in spite of the best efforts of the West. So what happens now? Let's have a look at some of the questions that arise.
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