Ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi won Iran’s presidential election last week. And many critics have accused US president Joe Biden of contributing to this result by failing to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal that Donald Trump unilaterally […]
Tag: sanctions
World condemns US embargo on Cuba as Biden continues Trump-era hostility
Cuba’s 1959 revolution took it out of the US sphere of influence. And Washington was quick to respond with a decades-long trade embargo. This has cost the Cuban economy at least $130bn; and under Donald […]
US sanctions have caused ‘enormous problems to buy medicine’ during the Covid-19 pandemic
As many expected, Joe Biden’s approach to Venezuela has not differed too much from Donald Trump’s. The current US president has largely left his predecessor’s sanctions in place. I spoke to UN special rapporteur Alena […]
