Al Jazeera on MSN2h
US ends sanctions waiver for Iraq to buy electricity from IranThe United States has ended a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity from neighbouring Iran, in line with US President Donald Trump’s policy of exerting “maximum pressure” on Tehran. In a statement released on Sunday,
A blockbuster new report from Sen. Charles Grassley’s Judiciary Committee shows that the Obama administration secretly worked behind the scenes to systematically protect Iranian agents and operations from federal investigators — for fear arrests and exposure would upset Tehran and so derail negotiations for Obama’s obscene Iran nuclear deal.
Secretary of State [John Kerry] personally told DOJ officials that they were to stand down on an arrest,” a whistleblower disclosure stated.
Trump’s remarks represent a shift for the president, who in 2018 withdrew the United States from a nuclear deal with Iran.
Grassley drops report on Obama-Biden State Departments' refusal to arrest alleged Iranian terrorists
The 81-page report accused the FBI and State Departments under the former administrations of "persistently and systematically derail[ing] criminal and national security investigations," during and after the Iran Nuclear Deal negotiations.
Agence France-Presse on MSN5h
US ends waiver for Iraq to buy Iranian electricityThe United States has ended a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity from neighboring Iran, in line with President Donald Trump's policy of exerting "maximum pressure" on Tehran. Since returning to the White House in January,
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