Donald Trump is trying to make it easier for foreign tankers to move around the US, temporarily allowing foreign-flagged ships carrying oil and gas to travel between US ports, the White House announced Wednesday. The move comes as the president tries to manage a delicate balancing act, attempting to mitigate the increasing price of oil while also carrying out the US-Israel war on Iran.
Back in the 80s, under the tanker wars, there the last time Iran tried to constrain global energy supplies, you had French, United Kingdom, even Soviet Union forces in there escorting their tankers out that were heading to their markets. And I think that's what President Trump is calling upon the world, saying, the entire world is affected.
Prosecutors said unique and extraordinary national security and foreign policy considerations contributed to the settlement, including Turkiye's assistance in securing October's ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza. This unique and substantial public interest in supporting the release of the hostages weighed heavily in the government's assessment of the appropriate resolution of this case.
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The United Nations, led by the so-called European 3 -- Britain, France, and Germany -- appears set to reimpose wide-ranging "snapback" sanctions on Iran after the Security Council rejected a last-minute bid by Russia and China to delay the action. Absent an extraordinary 11th-hour deal, the UN will at 8 p.m. Eastern time on September 27 reintroduce a series of measures against Iran. These include a conventional arms embargo, restrictions on activities related to ballistic missiles, a ban on reprocessing and enrichment of uranium, a global asset freeze, and travel bans on Iranian individuals and entities.
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Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref has vowed that Tehran will not "bow to pressure" despite the impending triggering of a UN mechanism that would restore sanctions over its alleged "grave noncompliance" of the 2015 nuclear deal. "We are not volunteering for sanctions, but this time, too, the Iranian people will neither back down nor bow to pressure," Aref said on August 31 during a weekly cabinet meeting, according to the ISNA news agency.
