sanctions

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”. Sun Tzu's proverbial phrase expresses exactly the current US strategy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran. The "maximum pressure" tactic pursued by US National Security…

When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States more than two years ago, politicians in Iran argued that his election would not have impacted the Iranian economy. Today, these statements seem more like a spell than a real…

Benjamin Netanyahu proved unintentionally insightful when he hailed, in his late September speech to the United Nations General Assembly, the collapse of a landmark global accord

La decisione di Donald Trump di uscire dall'accordo sul nucleare iraniano ha agitato i mercati petroliferi provocando un prevedibile aumento delle quotazioni, da un livello già "tirato" dai tagli alla produzione voluti dall'Opec e dalla…

Despite inflicting severe pain on the economy, and therefore on ordinary Russians, sanctions imposed by Western states on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis have had the opposite effect: instead of weakening the domestic power base of President…