Iran Sanctions

The United States government has many sanctions in place with Iran that are to be followed. The first of these sanctions was implemented in 1979 when we had so many problems with Iran taking United States citizens hostage in order to get attention and to negotiate what they wanted from us. The relationship with the United States and Iran has always been a very tense one.

The majority of sanctions against Iran are economic in nature. One of the biggest ways that this is done is by blocking the sale of oil from Iran to the United States. They have also encouraged other countries not to purchase it as well. Many countries rely on their relationship with the United States and so they are willing to honor such a request.

The United States feels that by not allowing trade with them and limiting their income they won’t have the control that they once did. Yet Iran continues to be involved in acts of terrorism around the world as well as known for having various types of nuclear weapons that they can access at any time. Therefore these types of financial sanctions haven’t stopped them from getting some type of funding to support these types of activities.

Some would say that the United States is being too harsh on Iran as many of the claims haven’t been proven. Yet after what took place in connection with the terrorist attacks of 09/11/01 no one is taking any chances. In 2007 under the authority of President Bush more sanctions were imposed. They are said to offer more restraint than any other sanctions that have been imposed in Iran before.

Under these new sanctions funding from the United States has been complete eliminated. Iran is no longer allowed to do business with any banking and financial entities in the United States. Other sanctions have been imposed against their military regime. While some say these are too harsh of sanctions the United States government stands firm.

They have documentation that invitations to talk with leaders of Iran about such issues have been continually ignored. Therefore they had to take a course of action that they believed would encourage Iran to reconsider that current stand.