FNA - On November 22nd of last year, the US government announced it would impose sanctions on Irans information minister for his alleged role in limiting domestic Internet access while protests raged in that country over increases in gas prices. At the time, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin condemned the Iranian government for censuring information ...

Bloomberg - The Trump administration will extend sanctions waivers allowing limited work on Irans civil nuclear program for another 60 days, two people familiar with the matter said. At the same time, the administration will announce sanctions on the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and its chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, according to the people, who ...

Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday the department will grant sanction waivers to allow Americans or any one else to participate in the investigation of Wednesdays crash of an Ukrainian International Boeing 737-800 airliner in Iran that killed 176 people. Under U.S. sanctions law, the Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets ...

MNA In a press conference on Monday, the Spokesperson of the Iranian foreign ministry Abbas Mousavi reacted to the latest remarks of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and US special representative for Iran Brian Hook. Reacting to the remarks of Mnuchin who said that US sanctions are alternative to actual war, Mousavi said he is doing the same ...

Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday U.S. troops were in Saudi Arabia on a defensive basis only and that the United States would end all sanctions on Iran when Tehran fulfilled necessary conditions. Mnuchin also told the Doha Forum conference that attacks on Saudi oil facilities, which the United States has blamed on ...

Reuters - The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on nine people close to Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, including his chief of staff, one of his sons and the head of the judiciary. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Irans seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, the U.S. Treasury Department said it also was blacklisting Irans ...

Sputnik - In 2011, when the US and other nations blocked payment channels in order to bring Iran to the negotiating table over its nuclear programme, the Reserve Bank of India facilitated payments to Iran via Turkey. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met the Governor of India's banking regulator, Reserve Bank of India, Shaktikanta Das in Mumbai ...

Reuters - The United States is working with allies to ensure adequate global oil supplies after its sanctions barred nations from buying Iranian crude, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday. Mnuchin spoke to reporters during a trip to India - which was one of the main importers of Iranian oil until New Delhi stopped the shipments ...

MNA Hostile policies of the United States and six other countries against Iran imposed sanctions on 25 corporations, banks and people on Wednesday, the US Treasury Department said in a statement. The targets were announced by the US, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was ...

Reuters - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Monday the United States would increase economic pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, making the pledge during a Middle East trip that includes visits to U.S. allies Israel and Saudi Arabia. Sanctions reimposed on Tehran by President Donald Trump after he withdrew the United States from world ...

Reuters - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had ordered Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to substantially increase sanctions imposed on Iran, amid escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran. He did not give details on the move, which follows weekend attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia that some U.S. officials blamed ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced the US for mounting the pressure of sanctions on Tehran after the ouster of hawkish US National Security Adviser John Bolton. In a post on his Twitter account on Wednesday, Zarif took a swipe at his American counterpart Mike Pompeo and at US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin ...

Press TV - The US has imposed sanctions on seven companies along with three individuals it claims helped procure materials for Irans nuclear program. Treasury is taking action to shut down an Iranian nuclear procurement network that leverages Chinese- and Belgium-based front companies to acquire critical nuclear, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin ...

MNA The United States on Wednesday sanctioned an Iraqi company and two of its associates, which it said had helped Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds force evade sanctions. According to a statement by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as reported by Reuters, Wednesdays sanctions targeted Baghdad-based South Wealth Resources Company. ...

IRNA The South Korean Economy and Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki in a meeting with his American counterpart called for lifting US sanctions on South Korean firms doing business with Iran. According to South Korean media, speaking in a meeting with US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin which was held on the sidelines of G20 meeting in Japan,...

IRNA The US Treasury Department imposed fresh sanctions on Iranian petrochemical sector. The US Department of the Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against Irans largest and most profitable petrochemical holding group, Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (PGPIC), for providing financial support to Khatam ...

MNA The United States has imposed new sanctions on nine Iranian citizens and two entities that it says are engaging in malicious covert actions that have targeted Americans at home and abroad, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement on Wednesday. In contiuation of the US anti-Iran policies, the Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced ...

FNA - Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi lambasted the US illegal sanctions against Tehran, stressing that Iran, China and Russia will never succumb to Washington pressures. "In our and the international community's view, the US sanctions are illegal and do not have international and legal basis," Kamalvandi ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, and picked headlines from 17 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. All papers today covered the remarks made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani about the new round of US sanctions, which ...

Yeni ?afak English - Iran's energy, shipbuilding, shipping, and financial sectors to be targeted with new wave of US sanctions The U.S. will reimpose on Monday more sanctions lifted under a 2015 nuclear pact world powers struck with Iran. The new wave of sanctions, the second since August, will target Iran's energy, shipbuilding, shipping, and ...