U.S. to issue new Iran sanctions,

[Common]

Trump is soooo mean!!!! he should give iran another 400,000,000 because they are so nice to us.

U.S. to issue new Iran sanctions, leading edge of get-tough strategy: sources

U.S. President Donald Trump is poised to impose new sanctions on multiple Iranian entities, seeking to ratchet up pressure on Tehran while crafting a broader strategy to counter what he sees as its destabilizing behavior, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
In the first tangible action against Iran since Trump took office on Jan. 20, the administration, on the same day he insisted that “nothing is off the table,” prepared to roll out new measures against more than two dozen Iranian targets, the sources said. The announcement is expected as early as Friday, they said.
The new sanctions, which are being taken under existing executive orders covering terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, may mark the leading edge of a more aggressive policy against Iran that Trump promised during the 2016 presidential campaign, the sources, who had knowledge of the administration's plans, said.
But the package, targeting both entities and individuals, was formulated in a way that would not violate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal negotiated by Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama, they added.
The sources said the new sanctions had been in the works for some time and that Iran's decision to test-fire a ballistic missile on Sunday had helped trigger Trump's decision to impose them, although Washington has not accused Iran of violating the nuclear deal.
The White House signaled a tougher stance toward Iran on Wednesday when Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, said he was putting Iran "on notice" after the missile test and senior U.S. officials said the administration was reviewing how to respond.
A top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said his country would not yield to "useless" U.S. threats from "an inexperienced person" over its ballistic missile program. The adviser, Ali Akbar Velayati did not identify a specific U.S. official in his comments.
The impact of the new round of sanctions will be more symbolic than practical, especially as the move does not affect the lifting of broader U.S. and international sanctions that took place under the nuclear deal. Also, few of the Iranian entities being targeted are likely to have U.S. assets that can be frozen, and U.S. companies, with few exceptions, are barred from doing business with Iran.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-idUSKBN15H253

[Peter1469]

Sanctions never should have been lifted in the first place without clear steps of compliance.

[MMC]

Iran opened their big mouth, talking shit like the illiberals do. Now Trump has decided to sanction the mopes. To bad he couldn't do the same for illiberals, huh? Well. Iran should know now. There is no more BO peep to run and kiss their ass.


The Iranians went back on their word. So let them suffer the consequences. Trump is also looking at BO peeps deal and looking to make a few changes, with the prospect of dismantling BO peeps failure.

[Peter1469]

They will learn fast that not all American presidents are sissy-boys.

[MMC]

They will learn fast that not all American presidents are sissy-boys.

The Iranians were mocking Trump over he has no experience. Yet they didn't do that with BO peep. So it is funny they would use that as a fall back.

Plus Trump will twitter about them opening their big mouths and after a time. The American people will get tired of Iran shit talking the US.


Also, I have a thread up with Mattis issuing a warning to N Korea. As usual Cigar jumped in to derail the thread.

[waltky]

Time for another dose of Stuxnet...
:angry:
US sanctions Iranian hackers for 'stealing university data'
23 Mar`18 - The United States has imposed sanctions on an Iranian company and 10 individuals for alleged cyber attacks, including on hundreds of universities.


The Mabna Institute is accused of stealing 31 terabytes of "valuable intellectual property and data". The justice department said the firm hacked 320 universities around the world, dozens of companies and parts of the US government. Nine of the 10 individuals have been indicted separately for related crimes. The two founders of the Mabna Institute are among those sanctioned and their assets are subject to US seizure, a statement by the US Treasury Department said. "These defendants are now fugitives of justice," US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said at a news conference.


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The Mabna Institute is accused of hacking at least 320 universities worldwide

Reuters reported he warned that the individuals may face extradition in more than 100 countries if they travel outside of Iran. The Mabna Institute was established in 2013, and US prosecutors believe it was designed to help Iranian research organisations steal information. It is accused of carrying out cyber attacks on 144 US universities, and 176 universities in 21 foreign countries, including the UK, Germany, Canada, Israel and Japan. By targeting the email accounts of more than 100,000 professors worldwide, the hackers compromised about 8,000 of them, according to the justice department.

US authorities described the global conspiracy as one of the largest state-sponsored hacking sprees to be prosecuted. "The Department of Justice will aggressively investigate and prosecute hostile actors who attempt to profit from America's ideas by infiltrating our computer systems and stealing intellectual property," Mr Rosenstein said, according to news agency AFP. Many of these "intrusions", Mr Rosenstein said, were done "at the behest of the Iranian government and, specifically, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps". The hackers also targeted the US Department of Labor, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the United Nations, according to prosecutors.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43519437

[waltky]

The Donald gonna fix dem Iranians...
:cool2:
U.S. On Verge Of Restoring Some Iran Sanctions After Leaving 'Horrible' Deal
August 6, 2018 - Just after the clock strikes midnight, it will usher in a new day and a return to past U.S. policy: As of 12:01 a.m. ET Tuesday, the Trump administration says it will restore some of the sanctions against Iran that were lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear deal.

The White House says that overnight, it will reinstitute regulations that, among other things (https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1026479793141952514), prohibit the Iranian government's use of U.S. dollars and erect barriers to trade with Iran involving aluminum and steel, the Iranian automotive and airline industries, and gold and other precious minerals. It will be an additional 90 days before the rest of the sanctions "snap back" into place in early November. This includes the sanctions that are expected to carry more weight — including bans on doing business with Iran's Central Bank and accepting the country's crude oil exports. In a statement released Monday (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-reimposition-united-states-sanctions-respect-iran/), President Trump cast the move to restore sanctions as a means of rectifying what it says is the Obama administration's mistake in agreeing to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/14/422920192/6-things-you-should-know-about-the-iran-nuclear-deal), or JCPOA. That accord — negotiated also with the U.K., France, German, Russia and China — suspended U.S. sanctions in return for limits and regular inspections on Iran's nuclear programs, while allowing the country to continue enriching uranium for peaceful energy purposes.

On Monday, Trump called the pact a "horrible, one-sided deal" that failed to block Iran's nuclear aspirations and "threw a lifeline of cash to a murderous dictatorship that has continued to spread bloodshed, violence, and chaos." "To this day," Trump added, "Iran threatens the United States and our allies, undermines the international financial system, and supports terrorism and militant proxies around the world." The move, which follows through on Trump's May 8 vow (https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/609383603/trump-u-s-will-withdraw-from-iran-nuclear-deal) to unilaterally withdraw from the multinational nuclear agreement, cheered Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1026508719281106945) and members of the president's party (https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1026478278125735936), who had long railed against the deal. Shortly after it was negotiated, Republicans in Congress tried (https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/08/436711201/the-iran-vote-explained-in-1-infographic), and narrowly failed (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/10/439294083/vote-to-down-iran-nuclear-deal-fails-senate-democrats-hand-victory-to-obama), to pass a resolution formally disapproving of the executive agreement. Since then withdrawing from the deal has become a centerpiece of GOP campaigns, including Trump's presidential run in 2016 (https://www.npr.org/2016/07/21/486883610/fact-check-donald-trumps-republican-convention-speech-annotated).



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An Iranian woman walks past a wall mural last month in downtown Tehran, Iran.



Outside U.S. borders, however, the Trump administration's decision to snap sanctions back into place has been received with a mixture of regret, anger and alarm — especially among the other countries that engaged in the deal, and that have promised to stick with it despite the U.S. decision to renege on its commitment. "The JCPOA is working and delivering on its goal, namely to ensure that the Iranian programme remains exclusively peaceful, as confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 11 consecutive reports," representatives for the European Union, France, the U.K. and Germany said in a joint statement (https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/49141/joint-statement-re-imposition-us-sanctions-due-its-withdrawal-joint-comprehensive-plan-action_en) on Monday. "It is a key element of the global nuclear non-proliferation architecture, crucial for the security of Europe, the region, and the entire world. We expect Iran to continue to fully implement all its nuclear commitments under the JCPOA."


Earlier this year, two months before Trump's withdrawal announcement. IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano reaffirmed that (https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/iran-is-implementing-nuclear-related-jcpoa-commitments-director-general-amano-tells-iaea-board) Iran "is implementing its nuclear-related commitments," adding that if the 2015 deal were to fail, "it would be a great loss for nuclear verification and for multilateralism." That's a sentiment echoed in Monday's joint statement by the European ministers, who put the matter only a bit differently: "Preserving the nuclear deal with Iran is a matter of respecting international agreements and a matter of international security." The EU announced that its "blocking statute" — aimed at "sustaining trade and economic relations between the EU and Iran" in the face of renewed U.S. sanctions — will enter into force (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-4805_en.htm) on the same day as the restored sanctions.


MORE (https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/636005600/u-s-on-verge-of-restoring-some-iran-sanctions-after-leaving-horrible-deal)

[Ethereal]

Trump continues to do the bidding of Israel and Saudi Arabia. Clearly, "America first" was just a big lie.

[waltky]

US Braces for Possible Cyberattacks after Iran Sanctions...
:shocked:
US Braces for Possible Cyberattacks after Iran Sanctions (https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/08/08/us-braces-possible-cyberattacks-after-iran-sanctions.html)
8 Aug 2018 WASHINGTON — The U.S. is bracing for cyberattacks Iran could launch in retaliation for the re-imposition of sanctions.



The U.S. is bracing for cyberattacks Iran could launch in retaliation for the re-imposition of sanctions this week by President Donald Trump, cybersecurity and intelligence experts say. Concern over that cyber threat has been rising since May, when Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal (https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/05/08/trump-pulls-us-out-horrible-one-sided-nuclear-accord-iran.html), under which the U.S. and other world powers eased economic sanctions in exchange for curbs on Iran's nuclear program. The experts say the threat would intensify following Washington's move Tuesday to re-impose economic restrictions on Tehran. "While we have no specific threats, we have seen an increase in chatter related to Iranian threat activity over the past several weeks," said Priscilla Moriuchi, director of strategic threat development at Recorded Future, a global real-time cyber threat intelligence company. The Massachusetts-based company predicted back in May that the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear agreement would provoke a cyber response from the Iranian government within two to four months.


U.S. intelligence agencies have singled out Iran as one of the main foreign cyber threats facing America, along with Russia, China and North Korea. A wave of attacks that U.S. authorities blamed on Iran between 2012 and 2014 targeted banks and caused tens of millions of dollars in damage. They also targeted but failed to penetrate critical infrastructure. Iran denies using its cyber capabilities for offensive purposes, and accuses the U.S. of targeting Iran. Several years ago, the top-secret Stuxnet computer virus destroyed centrifuges involved in Iran's contested nuclear program. Stuxnet, which is widely believed to be an American and Israeli creation, caused thousands of centrifuges at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility to spin themselves to destruction at the height of the West's fears over Iran's program. "The United States has been the most aggressive country in the world in offensive cyber activity and publicly boasted about attacking targets across the world," said Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman for Iran's diplomatic mission at the United Nations, contending that Iran's cyber capabilities are "exclusively for defensive purposes."



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In this photo released by official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani addresses the nation in a televised speech in Tehran, Iran, Monday Aug. 6, 2018.




Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who heads the elite Quds Force of Iran's hard-line paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, has sounded more ominous, warning late last month about Iran's capabilities in "asymmetric war," a veiled reference to nontraditional warfare that could include cyber attacks. The Trump administration says it re-imposed sanctions on Iran to prevent its aggression — denying it the funds it needs to finance terrorism, its missile program and forces in conflicts in Yemen and Syria. The sanctions restarted Tuesday target U.S. dollar financial transactions, Iran's automotive sector and the purchase of commercial planes and metals, including gold. Even stronger sanctions targeting Iran's oil sector and central bank are to be re-imposed in early November. European leaders have expressed deep regret about the U.S. actions. They hit Iran at a time when its unemployment is rising, the country's currency has collapsed and demonstrators are taking to the streets to protest social issues and labor unrest.


Norm Roule, former Iran manager for the office of the Director of National Intelligence, said he thinks Tehran will muster its cyber forces in response. "I think there is a good chance Iran will use cyber, probably not an attack that is so destructive that it would fragment its remaining relationship with Europe, but I just don't think the Iranians will think there is much cost to doing this," Roule said. "And it's a good way to show their capacity to inflict economic cost against the United States." "Iran's cyber activities against the world have been the most consequential, costly and aggressive in the history of the internet, more so than Russia. ... The Iranians are destructive cyber operators," Roule said, adding that Iranian hackers have, at times, impersonated Israeli and Western cyber security firm websites to harvest log-in information.


MORE (https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/08/08/us-braces-possible-cyberattacks-after-iran-sanctions.html)

[donttread]

They will learn fast that not all American presidents are sissy-boys.


What are "tough guys" who starve citizens to achieve compliance with rules they have no right to impose?

[Peter1469]

What are "tough guys" who starve citizens to achieve compliance with rules they have no right to impose?

What makes you think a super power has to ask you or anyone else what it imposes on its adversaries?