IRAN OFFERS MASTER-CLASS IN EVADING THE TOUGHEST SANCTIONS IN HISTORY
March 1st, 2013
IRAN is under sanctions from the United States, the European Union (EU) and the United Nations, and last year the US tightened the screws even more. As President Barack Obama said following his re-election in November, 2012: “We’ve imposed the toughest sanctions in history.” Circumventing such sanctions is getting harder and harder, but some jurisdictions are not cracking down as much as Washington would like.Iran has been subjected to American sanctions since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, when the US froze Iranian government assets. And the first ...
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