If there's one part of foreign policy where President Donald Trump has been consistent, it's economic sanctions on Iran. During his first presidency, Trump imposed what the State Department called a ...

Although Russia has managed to circumvent sanctions partially or even completely, in the end, it has to pay a very high price for it, Elina Valtonen, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of ...

(CNN) — The Iranian middle class, long a force of political moderation, stability, economic growth, and the base of the country’s reform movement, is shrinking fast under the pressure of Western ...

On May 2, 2011, a US Navy SEAL helicopter soft-crashed into the side of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Within the hour, bin Laden was identified and assassinated. The world’s most ...

I’m taking a break from the tariff wars this week to talk about sanctions, but don’t worry—tariffs will be back on my screen soon enough. Sanctions have become an increasingly popular tool of ...

How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare, by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez, Stanford University Press, 212 pages, $24 If there's one part of ...