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The Obama administration attempted to defuse tensions between the two countries, as it hoped for cooperation with both countries in regards to the Syrian Civil War and military operations against ISIS. [156] Obama also criticized the human rights record of Saudi Arabia, particularly in regards to the imprisonment of Raif Badawi. [157]
Obama's second letter was sent in September 2009. The letter was sent after the presidential inauguration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, when the protests had somewhat subsided, and was reported first time by the TABNAK news site. [7] [8] In the letter, Obama called for better cooperation between Iran and the United States. [9]
In the final hours of Friday, September 27, 2013, while Hassan Rouhani and the Iranian delegation participating in the 68th General Assembly of the United Nations were about to return to Iran from John F. Kennedy Airport, Hassan Rouhani for the first time in history of the Islamic Republic of Iran spoke directly to US President Barack Obama by telephone while sitting in a limousine heading to ...
The payment was part of a decades-old dispute over money Iran sent to the US to buy weapons that they never received. Obama accuses media of 'manufacturing outrage' in lengthy rant on Iran deal ...
U.S. President Barack Obama's hopes of preserving the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers were dealt a setback on Thursday when Chuck Schumer, one of the top Democrats in the U.S. Senate ...
Obama signed the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 on July 1, 2010, to expand sanctions on Iran. The restrictions of the new law are so tight that third countries have warned about the interference with their trade. [157] However under Obama, Iran's oil exports have been halved. [158]
According to the United States National Foreign Trade Council, in the medium-term, lifting U.S. sanctions and liberalizing Iran's economic regime would increase Iran's total trade annually by as much as $61 billion (at the 2005 world oil price of $50/bbl), adding 32 percent to Iran's GDP. In the oil-and-gas sector, output and exports would ...
The U.S. intelligence community believes Iran is not currently seeking a direct war with the U.S. but is looking to ratchet up pressure on Israel and the U.S.