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Sanctions impetus to make great breakthroughs
Feb 08, 2021 09:46Today is the 9th day of the Ten Day Dawn which marks the period in which the Islamic Revolution of the Iranian people triumphed over the oppressive Pahlavi regime and put an end to 2500 years of tyranny and oppression for good. The Islamic Revolution was undoubtedly the most important event in the contemporary world and the 20th century.
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Cuba could be on the brink of a revolutionary COVID vaccine, but US sanctions are slowing it down
Nov 27, 2020 20:20Dr. Helen Yaffe of Glasgow University, author of “We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World,” said: “Cuba now has four COVID-specific vaccine candidates under clinical trial. The fact that a small Caribbean island can achieve such a remarkable feat is testimony to its state-owned biotech sector, which is directed towards public health demands and integrated into its healthcare and education systems.
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Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran a crime against humanity
Oct 19, 2020 17:19Recently, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called US efforts and sanctions against Iran as manifestation of atrocity and "truly criminal," but said the Islamic Republic will continue to resist until it brings as much disgrace upon Washington as is possible.
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Time to toss US sanctions in the nearest dustbin
Oct 11, 2020 21:41Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, has made a joint statement at the General Debate of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, on behalf of 26 countries, criticizing the United States and Western countries for violating human rights, calling for the complete and immediate lifting of unilateral sanctions, and expressing grave concern on systematic racial discrimination.
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Iran calls US attempt to ‘snapback’ sanctions ‘null and void’, urges UN to block it
Sep 20, 2020 09:40Iran says the US’ claim about the return of the UN Security Council’s sanctions against Tehran as per the so-called “snapback” mechanism is “null and void”, calling on the UN and its Security Council to block any attempt to reinstate the bans.
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Pompeo’s ‘ticking clock’ on Iran is broken
Sep 02, 2020 18:11US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “ticking clock” on Iran is broken. His “maximum pressure” campaign failed. Undeterred, he vowed that the Trump regime will go it alone by imposing snapback sanctions on the country unilaterally — defying the world community, the rule of law be damned with him at State and Trump in the White House, the same thing true if Biden wins in November.
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Trump can’t have his cake and eat it too on Iran sanctions
Aug 31, 2020 16:30Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations says if the United States tries to use the Iran nuclear deal’s snapback mechanism to restore sanctions against the country, it will be humiliated again as the international community has already rejected Washington’s bid.
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US sanctions aimed to hurt Iranian people
Aug 09, 2020 10:44Since Iran's 1979 Revolution that ended a generation of US-installed fascist tyranny, the US has thrown everything at Iran conceivable short of all-out war. It threw a proxy war against Iran in the 1980s with Iraq. This went on for the better part of the decade - about 8 years. Over the years, over about 41 years, the US has sanctioned Iran many, many times. All US sanctions are illegal.
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Iran mulls lawsuits and legal actions to unblock funds
Jul 17, 2020 19:14An Iranian businessman says South Korea has agreed to release a part of funds belonging to Iran and frozen in the country's banks under pressure from the United States. Hossein Tanhayi, who chairs Iran-South Korea Joint Chamber of Commerce, said recently that the two countries had agreed to use a first installment of the funds for Iran’s purchase of drugs and medical equipment.
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US waging all-out sanctions war on Iran
Jul 05, 2020 10:14The US is waging all-out sanctions war on Iran, all-out hostile policies against Iranian people, to supposedly punish them, to try to bring Iran back to the US vassal state. Well, it hasn't worked since 1979. There isn’t any indication that it will work. It's even worse. The US does the same thing to Cuba. It hasn't worked against Cuba since 1960 -- for 60 years it hasn't worked.