Sanctions

On the day of President Joe Biden's inauguration, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that "Communist China has their President ... China Joe."

"Whatever has happened under Trump's administration must go back to the pre-Trump era," a top Iranian official said.

Iran said it took the vessel, Hankuk Chemi, in the Persian Gulf because it was violating environmental laws, which Seoul denies.

Iran returns to the nuclear obligations it gradually violated, while the U.S. provides the economic sanctions relief Tehran is afforded to under the deal. This is the fastest way to deescalate the situation.

"You would not have all the various secure systems of communication that the United States has if you were not concerned that this information might go where it's not intended," former OFAC official Peter Kucik told Newsweek.

Claims that Russia was behind a hack of key U.S. federal institutions come as a report revealed just how far Moscow went to target opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

China is revoking visa exemptions for U.S. diplomats visiting Hong Kong and Macau and imposing sanctions on Congress members.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying made the analogy Thursday when asked about Beijing's recent "Wolf Warrior" approach to diplomacy.

China's foreign ministry did not say which high-level officials would be affected, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reportedly likely to be among them.

Jake Sullivan, Biden's pick to be national security adviser, said Monday that the incoming administration thinks "it is feasible and achievable" to return to the Iran deal.

The State Department imposed the sanctions on 14 Chinese lawmakers over the clampdown on freedoms in Hong Kong.

Facing sanctions on many fronts, the Russian president extended by a year its own measures on countries that have tried to punish Moscow.

After years of 'maximum pressure', the political narrative in Iran is beginning to favor local hardliners, forecasted to win the presidency in June. Trump may have pre-emptively torpedoed American diplomacy for the next Administration.

Iranian officials have condemned the U.S. for imposing additional rounds of sanctions even as the country grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Today the international community once again expressed support for multilateralism," Iran's Ambassador to the U.K. Hamid Baeidinejad said.

Kim's crying over the country's economic collapse under U.S.-led sanctions may suggest a willingness to restart nuclear disarmament talks with the Trump administration.

Foreign Minister Javad Zarif criticized the U.S., claiming sanctions have cut off food and medical supplies desperately needed in a pandemic.

Mohammad Javad Zarif warned that the "culprits" behind sanctions that stop medicines "will face justice."

While 39 U.N. nations jointly criticized China's human rights policies in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, nearly 70 countries backed Beijing's right to safeguard its sovereignty.

U.S. senators have introduced a bi-partisan bill titled the "Holding Russia Accountable for Malign Activities Act of 2020."

The former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told MSNBC that the U.S. president is not willing to stand up to his Russian counterpart.

Despite global condemnation of the Novichok attack on the Kremlin critic, the E.U. and the U.S. may find it hard to sanction Russia.

The United Nations Security Council rejected American efforts to reimpose sanctions on Iran and to extend an international arms embargo on Tehran.

Days after the United States lost a bid to extend a United Nations arms embargo on Iran, China and Russia agreed to a summit aimed at avoiding potential conflict between the U.S. and Tehran.

"We're not having a summit with Vladimir Putin before the election," Robert O'Brien said.

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Oil, gas and petrochemical workers went on strike earlier this month in protest of unpaid wages and unsafe working conditions.

Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali claimed that the U.S. is trying to weaken all three countries and urged closer cooperation.

Iranian security forces reportedly fired tear gas to clear protesters in the southwest of the country on Thursday, as the regime grapples with a series of explosions, sanctions and coronavirus.