Sanctions

Washington has been at odds with Europe over Iran since the Trump administration abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal.

"War with Iran is playing with fire, and it will burn all, and not just Iran," said Iranian lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi.

"They have all shown an interest in dragging the United States into a conflict," Javad Zarif told Fox News Sunday. "I do not believe that President Trump wants to do that. I believe that President Trump ran on a campaign promise of not bringing the United States into another war."

"The rest of the world sees perfectly well that Washington's policy is getting increasingly aggressive and reckless," a Russian Foreign Ministry statement said.

Gas prices in the U.S. have risen for nine straight weeks.

Iran's General Amir Hatami said President Donald Trump's policies have promoted "such traits as selfishness, cruelty and violation of humanitarian principles and international rules."

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the new measures are illegal.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's warning came despite President Donald Trump's previously expressed optimism about the "great economic potential" of North Korea.

Analysts are questioning the Trump administration's decision to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a "terrorist group."

House Democrats can and should expose Trump's failed North Korea policy by questioning Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and Pentagon and intelligence agency officials on national TV.

The president "rejoices over the misery that he thinks he has imposed on ordinary Iranians," Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter.

"Other tools have somehow disappeared from U.S. diplomacy's arsenal," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Pyongyang had been hoping for a reduction of sanctions after the summit.

Russian troops will remain in the country "as long as they need it, and as long as the Venezuelan government needs them," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters.

"President Trump likes Chairman Kim and he doesn't think these sanctions will be necessary," the Sanders said.

"This is a sure sign of your successful work in Russia," Russian President Vladimir Putin told a director from the country's Ministry of Energy.

"No one can defeat a nation which pursues resistance," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised address, claiming the U.S. and its allies were to blame for the country's poor economy.

North Korea's ruling Workers' Party won re-election to maintain control of the country's Supreme People's Assembly, with 99.99 percent voter turnout.

The U.S. wants to change the regime in Iran, while Europe simply seeks to reform the regime's behavior. But the two parties are closer on some issues than you'd think.

Payments that read "Cuba sanctions" and "North Korea food" passed through the app without delay, but a transaction reading "Persian restaurant" was flagged for review.

Vladimir Putin's government has already taken steps to protect the Russian economy against such "racketeering attacks," Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, said.

"I believe the extremist sector of the white supremacists of the Ku Klux Klan is in charge of the United States," Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claimed.

"It really seems to be getting toward quite a grand scheme," legal expert Harry Litman said, "where officials are feathering their nests."

The Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are supplying oil to the Syrian government in spite of U.S. sanctions.

"It's convenient for them to let the country continue enduring this absurd crisis," an aid worker said.

"Donald Trump has without doubt given an order to kill me and has told the government of Colombia and the Colombian mafia to kill me," the embattled South American leader said.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro refused to submit to what he called "imperialist" international demands for a new election amid his power struggle with opposition leader Juan Guaidó.

"We continue to assess that Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities we judge necessary to produce a nuclear device," Dan Coats said.

"The U.S. government has limited ability to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens" in the country, the advisory warned.

China said, "History has taught us that external interference or sanctions, instead of helping solve problems, can only complicate matters."