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Protesters in Washington DC against sanctions and invasion of Iraq, 2002 or 2003. Some analysts, such as Walter Russell Mead, accepted a large estimate of casualties due to sanctions, [65] but argued that invading Iraq was better than continuing the sanctions regime, since "Each year of containment is a new Gulf War." [66] [67] [68]
"And of course the primary sanctions risk in Iraq relates to Iran." Among the banks on the U.S. ban list are Al Mustashar Islamic Bank, Erbil Bank, World Islamic Bank, and Zain Iraq Islamic Bank ...
Placed economic sanctions on Iraq in response to the invasion of Kuwait. Cuba and Yemen abstained 678: 29 November 1990 12-2-1 Authorized use of force against Iraq to "uphold and implement resolution 660 and all subsequent resolutions and to restore international peace and security in the area".
Iraq's central bank must address continued risks of the misuse of dollars at Iraqi commercial banks to avoid new punitive measures targeting the country's financial sector, a top U.S. Treasury ...
Its three most important features are that it recognized the US-UK coalition's responsibilities under applicable international law as occupying powers; recognised the creation of a transitional governing council of Iraqis; and removed all sanctions against Iraq that were placed upon the former regime of Saddam Hussein under resolutions 661 ...
The U.S. on Friday imposed sanctions on six people affiliated with the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Kataeb Hezbollah, which is accused of being behind a spate of recent attacks against U.S. forces ...
The Biden administration has extended by four months a sanctions waiver that will allow Iraq to continue to purchase electricity from Iran and gives Iran limited access to the proceeds to buy ...
The committee established under the resolution became commonly known as the 661 Committee, or alternatively as the Iraq Sanctions Committee. [3] Although the initial mandate of the 661 Committee was quite modest, it took on broad responsibilities in the implementation of the sanctions. Joy Gordon, a scholar on the Iraq sanctions wrote: