U.S. President Donald Trump attends a meeting with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Maysam Behravesh, Reuters: Why Trump’s ‘Arab NATO’ plan won’t curb Iran
The first round of what U.S. President Donald Trump called “the most biting sanctions ever imposed” against Tehran went into effect on August 7. “Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States,” Trump continued, in a tweet posted that morning. An even more damaging second round of U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Republic, reinstated after Washington pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, is expected to take effect in November.
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