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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the new U.S.
sanctions on Iran were "the most biting sanctions ever
imposed". "In November they ratchet up to yet another
level. Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with
the United States. I am asking for WORLD PEACE, nothing less!"
he tweeted.
German car and truck manufacturer Daimler on Tuesday
said it has dropped plans to expand its Iran business in reaction to
renewed U.S. sanctions, which come into effect on Tuesday.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani issued a challenge to
President Donald Trump on Monday, saying the Islamic Republic would
welcome talks with the US "right now."
UANI IN THE NEWS
The pressure campaign from the United States is
certainly working. Iran's economy has begun to erode... At the same
time, the Iranians have little drivers to bring them to the table.
Jason Brodsky, the policy director for United Against
Nuclear Iran, a group that opposed the Joint Comprehensive Plan for
Action, or JCPOA, the name of the Iran deal, said Trump was a
businessman learning how to be a politician and a diplomat. "I
think the president believes he has the ability by virtue of his
personality and negotiating experience to be the great negotiator and
to close deals he thinks are strong for the United States,"
Brodsky said.
SANCTIONS, BUSINESS RISKS, & OTHER ECONOMIC NEWS
The U.S. moved to reimpose punishing sanctions on Iran
and threatened even-tougher measures for later this year as the Trump
administration sought to increase pressure on the Tehran regime to
negotiate or step aside. Trump administration officials publicly
maintain that the campaign isn't aimed at regime change, even as
thousands of Iranians protest a deteriorating economy.
Crude prices are likely to be volatile and higher, as
tensions between the U.S. and Tehran rise ahead of the next wave of
sanctions, aimed at cutting off Iran's oil exports by early
November.
Senior European officials on Monday castigated U.S.
President Donald Trump's renewed sanctions on Tehran as
"illegal" and in violation of a U.N. Security Council
resolution, and they vowed to intensify efforts to thwart the U.S.
measures and preserve the Iran nuclear accord.
The European Union foreign policy chief Federica
Mogherini says the EU is encouraging enterprises to increase their
business with Iran, as that country has been compliant with their
nuclear-related commitments.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani responded to the return
of sweeping U.S. sanctions with a statement of defiance and a call
for unity. But with his promise to reconnect a youthful, striving
nation to the world through the 2015 nuclear deal crumbling, the
consequences could be stark.
President Donald Trump's national security adviser John
Bolton argued Monday the administration's unilateral reimposition of
sanctions on Iran was already having a major effect.
The United States is isolated in the world and will
regret imposing sanctions on Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said on
Monday, hours before new sanctions were due to take effect.
"America will regret imposing sanctions on Iran ... They are
already isolated in the world. They are imposing sanctions on Iranian
children, patients and the nation," Rouhani said in a televised
speech.
Money exchange shops across Iran cautiously reopened
Tuesday after being shut for five months amid economic turmoil fanned
by America's withdraw from the nuclear deal.
PROTESTS & HUMAN RIGHTS
As the first wave of renewed U.S. sanctions against Iran
goes into effect Tuesday amid rising street protests over the
country's disastrous economy, analysts are divided about whether
popular anger over runaway inflation and unemployment will be
directed at the government in Tehran-or at the United States.
Senior Donald Trump administration officials said today
they hope that renewed US economic sanctions on Iran that go into
effect Tuesday will fuel Iranian protests and ultimately pressure the
Iranian regime to take up Trump on his offer for talks for a broader
deal.
Sporadic street clashes and other protests have hit
major cities in Iran since late July as Iranians express anger over
economic woes that include rising prices and a sustained fall in the
value of Iran's national currency. The extent and seriousness of
protests in Iran can be difficult to gauge, with tight controls on
newsgathering and the publication of information regarded as
subversive or even critical of the religious establishment that has
run the country since the 1979 revolution.
IRANIAN INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS
While some Iranian Kurdish armed opposition groups are
intent on raising the heat on Iran amid ongoing U.S. pressure, other
groups are careful not to enter a conflict are careful not to enter a
conflict that may spiral out of control.
RUSSIA, SYRIA, ISRAEL, HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON & IRAN.
Russia is continuing efforts to enforce an agreement
designed to stabilize the situation at the border between Israel and
Syria.
Iran's blockage of the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait
would, as the premier knows, cost Israel dearly, mainly in terms of
trade with the East.
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