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February 25: Five things to know about Trump's new North Korea sanctions
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/375371-five-things-to-know-about-trumps-new-north-korea-sanctions

March 2: The Controversy Over Trump And Russia Sanctions Isn’t Going Away

The president is enforcing sanctions from before he took office. But there’s scant evidence he’s implementing new ones to deter election meddling.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trumps-russia-sanctions-controversy-not-going-away_us_5a98594be4b0479c02507f51

March 7: U.S. sanctions North Korea over VX assassination of Kim Jong Nam ... The U.S. has determined that Pyongyang used the chemical warfare agent VX to assassinate the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and has imposed sanctions in response, the State Department said Tuesday.

The prohibitions appeared largely symbolic, such as sales to North Korea under the Arms Export Control Act and barring the export of national security-sensitive goods and technology to the country, which has no relations with the United States.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/u-s-sanctions-north-korea-over-vx-assassination-kim-jong-n854366

April 6: US imposes sanctions against Russian oligarchs and government officials
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/russia-sanctions-oligarchs/index.html

April 6: Trump Sanctions Putin’s Son-in-Law, but Not Putin
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-sanctions-putins-son-in-law-but-not-putin

May 10: The Trump Sanctions: What Will the Global Impact Be?

No matter what, Iran will be hit hard
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/the-trump-sanctions-what-will-the-global-impact-be-1.6074602

May 14: Former Trump campaign aide is helping Russian firm shed sanctions
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/12/politics/washington-lobbying-trump-era/index.html

May 21: Trump bans purchase of Venezuelan debt in new sanctions

US steps up financial pressure on government of Nicolás Maduro after his re-election
https://www.ft.com/content/3202dad2-5d27-11e8-9334-2218e7146b04

May 29: Trump Moves Ahead With Tariffs and Other Trade Sanctions Against China
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/trump-moves-ahead-with-trade-sanctions-against-china.html

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June 6: President Donald Trump's efforts to isolate Iran through new international sanctions will also harm some of America's closest allies and other major world powers – a prospect top U.S. officials acknowledge as a hardship but dismiss as a necessary policy change.

As a result of withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal in early May, the Trump administration will begin enforcing new sanctions by Nov. 4 on most companies and countries that do business with Iran and its $50 billion in annual exports, two-thirds of which are for oil. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined in a speech last month that "these will be the strongest sanctions in history by the time we are done."

China, India, South Korea, Japan and France have become the largest investors in Iranian goods since 2015, according to the latest figures compiled by The Observatory of Economic Complexity, when the agreement brokered by the Obama administration limiting Iran's nuclear program opened up its markets. Now the Trump White House expects countries doing business with Iran, particularly its oil sector – not just China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the European Union, who signed the Iran nuclear deal in 2015 – to adhere to the new U.S. demands.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-06-26/trumps-iran-sanctions-will-hurt-key-allies-powers

June 13: Donald Trump has agreed to lift sanctions on North Korea, claims nation’s state media

Report quotes Kim Jong-un as saying North could take 'additional good-will measures'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/donald-trump-north-korea-sanctions-lift-agreement-state-media-korean-korean-central-news-agency-a8396251.html

July 30: Russia just dumped 84% of its American debt. What that means

Between March and May, Russia's holdings of US Treasury bonds plummeted by $81 billion, representing 84% of its total US debt holdings.

The sudden debt dump may have contributed to a short-term spike in Treasury rates that spooked the market. 10-year Treasury yields topped 3% in April for the first time since 2014.

It also sparked a guessing game about Moscow's motivations. Maybe Russia just wanted to diversify its portfolio, as the central bank stated. Or perhaps Russia was seeking revenge for Washington's crippling sanctions on aluminum maker Rusal.
https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/30/investing/russia-us-debt-treasury/index.html

August 3: Russian Bank Hit With Sanctions For Helping North Korea
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/03/635465039/russian-bank-hit-with-sanctions-for-helping-north-korea

August 5: Trump administration’s use of sanctions draws concern
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administrations-use-of-sanctions-draws-concern/2018/08/05/36ec7dde-9402-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b69a32766da7

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August 7: The first set of U.S. sanctions against Iran that had been eased under the landmark nuclear accord went back into effect early Tuesday under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, targeting financial transactions that involve U.S. dollars, Iran’s automotive sector, the purchase of commercial planes and metals including gold.

More U.S sanctions targeting Iran’s oil sector and central bank are to be reimposed in early November.

In an early-morning tweet, Trump said the re-imposition of sanctions mean, “Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States.”
http://time.com/5359283/trump-increases-sanctions-iran/

August 8: For Trump, sanctions substitute for foreign policy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/08/08/trump-sanctions-substitute-foreign-policy/?utm_term=.5100dd468d56

August 8: Trump administration to hit Russia with new sanctions for Skripal poisoning

The administration has signed off on a determination that Russia violated international law, triggering new U.S. sanctions.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-administration-hit-russia-new-sanctions-skripal-poisoning-n898856

August 10: Why Trump is attacking Turkey with sanctions and tariffs
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/10/why-trump-is-attacking-turkey-with-sanctions-and-tariffs.html

August 13: Trump approves law detailing new conditions to end Zimbabwe sanctions

The US law says the Zimbabwean army must ‘‘respect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all persons and to be nonpartisan in character’‘.

The Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act which was signed into law on Friday, states that for sanctions to end, Zimbabwe’s July 30 poll must be ‘‘widely accepted as free and fair’‘.
http://www.africanews.com/2018/08/13/trump-approves-law-detailing-new-conditions-to-end-zimbabwe-sanctions//

August 14: What sanctions on Turkey say about Trump's brand of diplomacy
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2018/0814/What-sanctions-on-Turkey-say-about-Trump-s-brand-of-diplomacy

August 16: Breaking Down Trump's Economic Sanctions

The current administration has made heavy-handed economic policy one of its main tools for influencing global politics.
https://psmag.com/economics/breaking-down-trumps-economic-sanctions

August 16: Iranians vent anger at Trump as the wheels come off their economy
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/middleeast/iran-sanctions-tehran-families-intl/index.html

August 19: Iran ... Hong Kong bank customers get hit

Banking for companies that do business with Iran is about to get even more complicated – as some in Hong Kong and mainland China are already finding out
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2160217/trump-aims-sanctions-iran-hong-kong-bank-customers-get-hit

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August 31: Science in Iran languishes after Trump reimposes sanctions

To explore the genetic diversity of Iran’s desert plants, Hossein Akhani and his colleagues used to send DNA samples to a company in Seoul, which provided fast and reliable sequencing. But a few weeks ago, the University of Tehran biologist says, he received a letter from the company explaining that the South Korean government had advised the firm “not to deal with Iran.” The reason: the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, a multilateral agreement in which Iran agreed to freeze key nuclear activities in return for relief from international economic sanctions.

Iran’s currency, the rial, has lost more than half its value since January, dealing a hammer blow to science. At the Royan, a global player in stem cell biology and reproductive medicine, Iranian government funding now covers little more than salaries, benefits, and food and energy subsidies,
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/science-iran-languishes-after-trump-re-imposes-sanctions

September 4: How Europe plans to skirt Trump's sanctions and keep doing business with Iran

Among the creative workarounds under discussion in Brussels and other capitals: Devising an alternative — free from U.S. influence — to the current electronic system used to transfer money from place to place, European officials told NBC News. And since commercial banks must stop handling transactions with Iran or face U.S. penalties, European countries are considering using their own central banks to transfer funds to Iran, wagering that Trump wouldn't go so far as to sanction an ally's central bank.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/how-europe-plans-skirt-trump-s-sanctions-keep-doing-business-n906161

September 12: Trump signs order that would impose sanctions for election interference
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-signs-order-impose-sanctions-election-interference/story?id=57770888

September 13: Lawmakers press Trump officials on implementing Russia sanctions
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/406592-lawmakers-press-trump-officials-on-implementing-russia-sanctions

September 14:
Europe looks to thwart Trump’s Iran sanctions

Defiance of Washington will further strain transatlantic ties.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-powers-look-to-create-financial-firm-to-thwart-us-donald-trump-sanctions-on-iran/

September 20: President Donald Trump has expanded a US sanctions list of Russians that interfered in the 2016 presidential election — one of his toughest moves yet against a country he says didn’t meddle at all.

On Thursday afternoon, the State Department announced that the administration identified 33 individuals and entities — including oligarchs, a troll farm, and a mercenary group — for their connections to Russia’s defense and intelligence sectors.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/9/20/17883552/trump-russia-sanctions-mueller-caatsa

September 21: Trump Administration Orders New Sanctions On North Korea
https://www.npr.org/2017/09/21/552577351/trump-administration-plans-new-sanctions-on-north-korea

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September 26: Trump seeks UN backing for Iran nuclear sanctions

The remaining signatories in the nuclear deal - the UK, China, France, Germany and Russia - say they will set up a new payment system to maintain business with Iran and bypass US sanctions.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned the idea as "one of the most counterproductive measures imaginable".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45652670

October 3: The United Nation's Top Court Ordered the Trump Administration to Lift Sanctions on Iran
http://time.com/5413647/u-n-court-trump-iran-sanctions/

October 8: Rocked by Trump's sanctions, Iranian oil exports drops further
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec-iran/rocked-by-trumps-sanctions-iranian-oil-exports-drops-further-idUSKCN1MI0WX

October 14: Nearly two weeks since Jamal Khashoggi vanished in Istanbul, the shadow of the Saudi journalist's disappearance continues to loom ever larger. Now, President Trump is threatening "severe punishment" for Saudi Arabia if suspicions of Khashoggi's murder are confirmed — and Saudis have vowed to retaliate in kind.

"The Kingdom also affirms that if it receives any action, it will respond with greater action," Saudi Arabia's state-run news agency said Sunday, ominously noting that the country plays "an influential and vital role in the global economy."

Citing an "official source," the Saudi Press Agency added that Riyadh "affirms its total rejection of any threats and attempts to undermine it." Rather, if Saudis face "political pressures" such as accusations or sanctions, "the outcome of these weak endeavors, like their predecessors, is a demise."
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/14/657277639/saudis-vow-to-retaliate-with-greater-action-if-hit-with-sanctions

October 14: Saudi Arabia has rebuffed U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to punish it over the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying Sunday it would retaliate with "greater" economic actions of its own if Trump were to sanction Riyadh.
https://www.voanews.com/a/saudis-rebuff-trump-threat-of-sanctions-for-missing-journalist/4612911.html

October 23: How Congress can force Trump's hand on Saudi sanctions — and why the consequences would be major
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/23/how-congress-can-force-trumps-hand-on-saudi-sanctions--and-why-the-consequences-would-be-major.html

October 25: Trump imposes sanctions on Hezbollah, says his administration has 'done a big number' on Iran

In August, the Trump administration restored sanctions against Iran that had been suspended under former President Barack Obama's 2015 nuclear deal. Trump has long characterized that deal as an ineffective giveaway that allowed Iran to finance terrorism without actually checking its nuclear ambitions.

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Even more severe U.S. sanctions against Iran's banking and energy sectors are slated to go into effect in November, including restrictions on Iran's oil industry that could cut off a crucial source of hard currency. The sanctions already imposed target Iranian trade in automobiles, gold and other key metals.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-imposes-sanctions-on-hezbollah-says-his-administration-has-done-a-big-number-on-iran

October 27: A battle is brewing between the Trump administration and some of the president’s biggest supporters in Congress who are concerned that sanctions to be re-imposed on Iran early next month won’t be tough enough.

As President Donald Trump prepares to re-impose a second batch of Iran sanctions that had been eased under the 2015 nuclear deal, conservative lawmakers and outside advisers have become worried that the administration may break a promise to exert “maximum pressure” on Iran. They are angered by suggestions that measures to be announced Nov. 5 won’t include a provision cutting Iran off from a key component of the global financial system.
https://www.apnews.com/9781f46624394ea78ffc1ad83c3181be

November 2: Trump to Reimpose Sanctions

At midnight on Monday, President Trump’s snapback of nuclear-related sanctions on Iran will be finalized. While a portion of the sanctions previously waived under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) came back into force on August 7, the November 5 tranche of Iran sanctions includes many of the most impactful sanctions to be levied on Iran, including those targeting Iran’s energy and financial sectors.

The decision by the United States to violate the Iran nuclear deal and reinstate sanctions has already caused economic pain for Iran’s population of 80 million. However, Iran has ruled out negotiations with the Trump administration for the foreseeable future.
https://www.niacouncil.org/experts-reimposition-sanctions-iran-violation-nuclear-deal/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItaaiuf_A3wIVBAppCh0ongB5EAAYASAAEgL4jfD_BwE

November 20: Trump administration slaps new sanctions to punish Iran and Syria
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/20/trump-sanctions-iran-syriaoil-1006259

November 29: Did a Real Estate Project Influence Trump’s View of Russia Sanctions?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/trump-cohen-russia-sanctions.html

December 19: The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it intends to lift sanctions against the business empire of Oleg V. Deripaska, one of Russia’s most influential oligarchs, after an aggressive lobbying campaign by Mr. Deripaska’s companies.

The decision by the Treasury Department, which had been postponed for months, was both politically and economically sensitive, and drew criticism from some Democrats and foreign policy analysts that the administration was sending the wrong signal to Moscow about its conduct toward its neighbors and the United States.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-administration-to-lift-sanctions-on-russian-oligarch%E2%80%99s-companies/ar-BBRcmLo

December 26: Koreas launch rail, road project that will be delayed by sanctions
https://thehill.com/policy/international/422863-koreas-launch-rail-road-project-that-will-be-delayed-by-sanctions

December 27: New Trump order may officially ban Huawei and ZTE from 5G rollout, per report

The White House is considering an explicit trade ban on Chinese telecom equipment, according to a Reuters report
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/27/18157618/white-house-huawei-zte-5g-rollout-sanctions-china-trump-trade-war

December 27: The geopolitics of US sanctions against Iran's energy sector
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2018/12/27/the-geopolitics-of-us-sanctions-against-irans-energy-sector

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January 29: These are Mitch McConnell’s nefarious links to Putin, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and Russian companies

There always seems to be more to the story when it comes to Trump and Russia, and this time it involves Senate Leader Mitch McConnell.

Monday evening brought a new twist in that one of Mitch McConnell’s major donors, Len Blavatnik, who is tied to Vladimir Putin and all kinds of Russian oligarchs, benefited when Trump and McConnell lifted Russian sanctions on Sunday.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/these-are-mitch-mcconnells-nefarious-linked-to-putin-russian-oligarch-oleg-deripaska-and-russian-companies/

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