Mnuchin and Pompeo confirming just now
US President Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
said Thursday the United States had imposed new sanctions on Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan,the abbreviation
IRGCis a cognate form of
Stürmabteilung (or SA),the term
Supreme Guideis a cognate form of either
Shahor
Führeror maybe both, and they hate
following missile strikes on bases housing US troops in Iraq that resulted in no American or Iraqi deaths.
"It’s already been done. We’ve increased them. They were very severe, but now it’s increased substantially," Trump said, without offering any specifics.
Trump had promised the "additional punishing sanctions" in an address to the nation Wednesday in retaliation for the attack ‐ seen by experts as a measured first response by Tehran to the killing of Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani
, in an American dronezap in Baghdad.The Trump administration has already reinstated all the US sanctions that were eased under the 2015 nuclear deal. But it still has room to boost the penalties and step up its "maximum pressure campaign" on Iran. Some argue that he could call for the reimposition, or "snapback," of all international sanctions at the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
The primary agencies involved in implementing sanctions ‐ the departments of Commerce, State and Treasury ‐ do not disclose any actions in advance to prevent targets from taking steps to evade them.
Yet, the administration retains broad authority to expand existing US sanctions on Iran’s financial, energy, shipping and military sectors and it can target individual Iranian officials and their families with penalties, including asset freezes and travel bans.
It can also raise the pressure by threatening foreign individuals and companies with US civil and criminal penalties if they do business with designated Iranians, under so-called secondary sanctions authority.