USA has gone nuts, completely nuts!! At this point is there a single nation on Earth that is not “sanctioned” by America? Soon everyone will be “sanctioned” and soon America will find itself completely isolated with no friends with the exception of Israel of course and everybody will unite to sanction America instead… they act as if they are the daily bread of the world and the world would die of starvation without America.
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Approves Sanctions Against Turkey Over Its Purchase of S-400s
Washington has repeatedly threatened to sanction Turkey over its decision to buy the Russian air defence system, and moved to halt the delivery of F-35 fighter jets to Ankara over the purchase earlier this year.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has passed the ‘Promoting American National Security and Preventing the Resurgence of ISIS Act’, which includes sanctions against Turkey over its decision to buy Russia’s S-400 air defence system.
Senator Bob Menendez, the bill’s co-sponsor and ranking committee Democrat, tweeted Wednesday that the legislation “makes clear to Turkey that its behaviour with respect to Syria is unacceptable, and its purchase of the S-400 system is untenable.”
Pompeo Vows to Keep ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran as US Imposes New Anti-Tehran Sanctions
The new sanctions come less than a day after Iran’s foreign ministry issued a travel advisory urging Iranian nationals not to visit the United States, given what it described as America’s “cruel and one-sided laws toward Iranians,” and the danger of “arbitrary and lengthy detention in completely inhumane conditions.”
The United States Treasury announced new sanctions on five Iranian entities, two vessels and one individual on Wednesday.
In a press statement, the Treasury said that Iranian businessman Abdolhossein Khedri and his shipping companies including Khedri Jahan Darya Co and Maritime Silk Road LLC were being designated over their alleged support for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force’s “smuggling operations.”
“Khedri is being designated pursuant E.O. 13224 for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or serviced to or in support of, the IRGC-QF,” the statement said.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed Wednesday that the other designated entities include Iranian transportation companies Mahan Air and Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, given their alleged role in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The designation also includes Shanghai-based shipping company E-Sail. The designations will take effect 180 days from today.
“As long as [Iran’s] malign behaviour continues, so will our campaign of maximum pressure. Today I’m announcing the designation of three Iranian transportation companies that helped Iran import items for its weapons of mass destruction programmes,” Pompeo said, speaking at a press conference in Washington, DC.
Pompeo warned that the designations “put the world on notice,” and that countries or companies that engage in business with the designated entities risk exposure to US secondary sanctions.
In his comments, Pompeo also reiterated the State Department’s advisory against travel to Iran, saying there were “massive risks associated” with doing so. “The State Department has previously issued a Level 4 travel advisory for that country. It’s our highest threat level. Americans and particularly dual national Iranian Americans traveling to Iran face a very high risk of kidnapping, arrest and detention,” he said.
US Senate advances bill giving State Department right to call Russia ‘sponsor of terrorism’
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a bill asking the State Department to determine whether Russia falls under criteria of a state sponsor of terrorism, potentially opening a way stricter sanctions.
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a bill asking the State Department to determine whether Russia falls under criteria of a state sponsor of terrorism, potentially opening a way stricter sanctions.The pretentiously titled ‘Stopping Malign Activities from Russian Terrorism (SMART) Act’ could potentially bring the already strained relations between Moscow and Washington to a new low.
Introduced by Senator Cory Gardner (R-Colorado) in April, it requires the Secretary of State to give “appropriate congressional committees” a straight answer on whether Russia could be designated a sponsor of terrorism.The bill also requires the State Department to determine and report to Congress whether the militia in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics in eastern Ukraine can be considered “foreign terrorist organizations.” The report should be presented “no later than 90 days” after the proposed law comes into force, should it pass in both Senate and the House and be signed by the president.
So far, the Foreign Relations Committee cleared it to be further debated – and potentially passed – by the Senate.Only a handful of countries have been designated by Washington as state sponsors of terrorism, including Iran, Syria, North Korea and Sudan. Should this bill be approved, it would give the anti-Russian interests in Washington yet another opportunity to slap Moscow with more sanctions.
The committee’s action just a day after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Washington and met with both State Secretary Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump. His visit sparked yet another wave of anti-Russian hysteria, among the House Democrats in particular. Congressman Adam Schiff (D-California), who spearheads the Trump impeachment efforts in the House, called it no less than a “success of Russian propaganda.” Lavrov replied by calling such a reaction to “ministerial-level contacts normal to any country” patently absurd.
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CORRECTION:
Russia, Iran and islamists have gone nuts, completely nuts!!
At this point, is there a single free nation on Earth that is not under assault by Russia, Iran and islamists? ……….No!
Now rewrite the article correctly!