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The United States sanctions against Iran were imposed in November 1979 after radical students seized the American Embassy in Tehran and took hostages.The sanctions were imposed by Executive Order 12170, which included freezing about $8.1 billion in Iranian assets, including bank deposits, gold and other properties, and a trade embargo.
An essential tool of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) are restrictive measures, also known as "sanctions". They are utilized by the EU as a component of a coordinated and all-encompassing policy approach that includes political discussion, complementary actions, and the use of other tools at its disposal.
In its history, the EU has on multiple occasions imposed sanctions on other countries for human rights violations. Some of the examples include an arm embargo imposed on China since 1989 for the Tiananmen Square Massacre, [2] or asset freezes on certain officials in Iran who repressed and tortured human right activists. [3]
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A EU blocking statute was originally enacted in 1996 to "counteract" the sanctions imposed by the United States against Cuba, Iran and Libya. [2]After the US reimposed sanctions against Iran following its withdrawal from an agreement which permitted trade if Iran curtailed its nuclear programme, on 17 May 2018 the European Commission announced its intention to implement the blocking statute of ...
Should Armenia, which is a planning to apply for EU membership, and Turkey, which is a candidate for EU membership, accede to the EU, Iran will be a border neighbor with the European Union. As of 2019, the Iran–EU trade relations are stained due to the sanctions re-imposed on Iran by the United States after the US unilateral withdrawal from ...
Individuals related to Iran Sanctions (1 C, 5 P) Iranian entities subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions (10 C, 75 P) Iranian individuals subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions (2 C, 64 P)
Economic sanctions; 2006–2007 economic sanctions against the Palestinian National Authority; Economic sanctions against the United States; Embargo of Russian oil during the Russo-Ukrainian War; EU natural gas price cap