Sentences with phrase «after nuclear sanctions»

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U.S. President Donald Trump has until May 12 to decide whether to restore the sanctions on Iran that were lifted after an agreement over its disputed nuclear program.

Iran has been working to regain market share after Western sanctions over its disputed nuclear program were lifted in 2016 under a deal between the country and six major powers.

The September 3 nuclear test prompted a new round of sanctions on North Korea after the Security Council voted unanimously on a resolution condemning the test.

Since the Winter Olympics earlier this year in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and sweeping rounds of US - led sanctions after North Korean nuclear and missile tests, Kim has also apparently opened up to diplomacy.

U.S. President Donald Trump has until May 12 to decide whether to restore sanctions on Iran that were lifted after the 2015 agreement over its nuclear program.

Richard Nephew, the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team that negotiated the nuclear deal, cautioned against drawing conclusions, noting that Trump has flip - flopped after appearing to announce a policy decision in the past.

Pyongyang looks at states such as Iraq — where Saddam Hussein was overthrown by the United States — and Libya — its late leader, Moammar Gadhafi, gave up his nuclear ambitions for sanctions relief and aid, only to be toppled and killed after the United States intervened in his country's civil unrest — and believes that only being able to threaten the US mainland with a retaliatory nuclear strike can stop American military intervention.

Easing sanctions on Tehran after the nuclear deal made transactions like this doable.

US President Donald Trump has until May 12 to decide whether to restore sanctions on Iran that were lifted after a 2015 international agreement over its nuclear program.

Iran moved this month to formally unify its official and open market exchange rates and banned money changing outside of banks, after its currency, the rial, plunged to an all - time low on concerns about a possible return of sanctions if the United States exits a multilateral nuclear accord.

Crude oil prices settled higher as the prospect of new U.S. sanctions against Iran heated up after Israel revealed files he claimed show Iran continued to develop nuclear weapons.

Crude oil prices settled higher as the prospect of new U.S. sanctions against Iran heated up after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed files he claimed show Iran continued to develop nuclear weapons.

The article comes just weeks after the U.N. Security Council voted to enforce tougher sanctions on the country after it teased its potential nuclear and military capabilities earlier this year.

The questions is if Iran will want and decide in the future, after it is not being sanctioned by no one and the agreement is over, to follow a path to start using its nuclear program to create weapons of mass destruction.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin promised to consider a sanctions package that may cut off «all trade and all other business» with North Korea's trading partners after North Korea's latest nuclear test.

Opponents also maintain that dropping sanctions against Iran will rejuvenate its economy, allowing it to send even more funds to terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, to reanimate its atomic facilities after a decade passes and to develop the ballistics necessary to launch nuclear attacks on American and Israeli territory — possibly even on New York City.

The decision to lift the sanctions against Iran came on Sunday after the international nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, said Iran had complied with a deal designed to prevent it developing nuclear weapons.

Mr. Jeffries said he supported the agreement, which will lift economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for limitations and inspections on their nuclear program, after a «substantial period of deliberation.»

After 2 years of negotiations, Iran today agreed to dismantle large pieces of its nuclear program in exchange for lifting crippling economic sanctions.

Oil prices rose more than 3 percent last Wednesday after President Trump abandoned the Iranian nuclear deal and announced the «highest level» of sanctions against Tehran.

The announcement came nearly one week after US President Donald Trump refused to re-certify the global nuclear deal that Germany, France, US, UK, China, and Russia had signed with Iran after years of negotiations in 2015, lifting long - standing UN-imposed sanctions that had isolated Iran from the international community for years.

Yesterday, the UN Security Council imposed fresh sanctions against North Korea a week after it conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test to date.