The Trump administration suspects Iran of seeking nuclear weapons - something Tehran denies - and Monday’s punitive steps are the latest in a series seeking to stymie Iran’s atomic program, which US ally Israel views as an existential threat. “Iran is clearly doing everything it can to kee...
IS IT TIME FOR US SANCTIONS ON ISRAEL?Peter Wedlund
A feature of the simmering tensions betweenthe US, Israel and Iranhas been not just the tit-for-tat missile and drone strikes and assassinations, but accusations ofcyberwarfarewaged by Iran. On April 23, the US Treasury announced it was sanctioning two Iranian companies and four Iranian indivi...
According to the lawmaker, “[Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer needs to pass the bipartisan legislation that came from the House sanctioning the Court for such an outrage and [US President Joe] Biden needs to sign it.” In June, the US House of Representatives, where the Republicans ha...
The US House of Representatives voted on Thursday to sanction the International Criminal Court in protest at its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over Israel's campaign in Gaza. The vote was 243 to 140 in favor of the "Illegitimate Cour...
Well, the reality is they’re going to lose wherever they go, unless there’s atomic war and the chessboard is thrown over. And I think their feeling is the Americans are doing everything they can, from Ukraine to Israel to Iran, to try to stir up a retaliation so that they can then...
“We commend the Biden Administration for its appropriate action in sanctioning two officials of the Iranian regime, Ali Hemmatian and Masoud Safdari, barring them and their families from entering the United States,” said Arthur Stark, Chairman, William Daroff, CEO, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Vice ...
Judge Tomoko Akane, president of International Criminal Court, criticizes Russia for targeting the court’s prosecutors and judges over investigation into Putin, as well as Senator Lindsey Graham's threat to sanction the court over arrest warrants for Israelis.Israel National NewsDec 3, 2024, 6:56...
“blatant harm to Israeli sovereignty, to the longtime friendship between the two states, to the values of democracy, which the US has always championed, and, of course, to the global struggle against terror, as not even one sanction was applied to members of Hamas or thePalestinian ...
Washington is considering a possible change of policy towards Syria in the near future, which would entail lifting sanctions against the country but would not include returning the US ambassador to Damascus, Israel Radio quoted senior US officials as saying on Sunday. ...