Neither Poverty Nor Disease Will Deter Hamas from Waging Jihad on Israel
The message behind last week’s rocket attack.
April 2, 2020
Nor should it ignore the death of Robert Levinson.
When the Trump administration withdrew from its 2015 agreement with Tehran, it did not immediately resume the entire battery of sanctions that the agreement had suspended. Instead, it issued a number of specific, temporary waivers. This week the State Department renewed for another 60 days one of these waivers, which blocks sanctions on the European, Russian, and Chinese corporations that operate the Islamic Republic’s supposedly civilian nuclear facilities. Jonathan Tobin criticizes this decision, apparently taken at the behest of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin:
The message behind last week’s rocket attack.
Nor should it ignore the death of Robert Levinson.
Ties go back much further than most assume.
Waldemar Haffkine’s battle with cholera, plague, and anti-Semitism.
But the exiles still had reason to weep.
When the Trump administration withdrew from its 2015 agreement with Tehran, it did not immediately resume the entire battery of sanctions that the agreement had suspended. Instead, it issued a number of specific, temporary waivers. This week the State Department renewed for another 60 days one of these waivers, which blocks sanctions on the European, Russian, and Chinese corporations that operate the Islamic Republic’s supposedly civilian nuclear facilities. Jonathan Tobin criticizes this decision, apparently taken at the behest of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin:
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