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In the 4th century BC, the ancient Sanskrit treatise, the Arthashastra, said 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend.' According to Business Insider, Iran and Venezuela may be taking that to heart as their relationship grows ever closer. While the nations are US President Donald Trump's most frequent foreign-policy targets, Iran has been sending oil tankers directly to Venezuela. In September, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US would place more sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Pompeo accused Maduro's government of working with Tehran 'to flout the UN arms embargo.' US officials say intervening to stop Iranian tankers from reaching Venezuela was an option, raising concerns Trump may seek a confrontation before the election.
The United States says it would refuse visas for extremist Israeli settlers who attack Palestinians, stepping up pressure to curb a wave of violence in the West Bank during the Gaza war. "The United States is taking action to address this escalating violence in the West Bank by implementing a new visa restriction policy," says US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller. SOUNDBITE
President Joe Biden has authorized the United States to impose sanctions on the Russian Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project in retaliation for Moscow's military pressure against Ukraine, State Department spokesperson Ned Price says at a briefing. "We have now taken complementary actions, using our own authorities to ensure that Nord Stream 2 is off the table, just as we said it would be," Price says. SOUNDBITE
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tells reporters the US and its allies have "taken a number of actions to impose costs on the Lukashenko regime in Belarus." The EU and the US have both targeted dozens of individuals and entities over a brutal crackdown on opposition since Lukashenko claimed victory in elections last August deemed fraudulent by the West. The 27-nation bloc and London added seven officials -- including the defence and transport ministers of Belarus -- to their sanctions blacklists for the grounding of a Ryanair jet last month. SOUNDBITE
Brussels, Mar 22 (EFE), (Camera: ARCHIVE EFE).- The European Union on Monday agreed to impose fresh sanctions on four senior Chinese officials over human rights violations and abuses related to the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang province.These are the first EU sanctions on Chinese officials since the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.They were imposed in the wake of the “large-scale arbitrary detentions of, in particular, Uyghurs in Xinjiang in China,” among other motives, the EU said.The list of officials includes Mingguo Chen, the Director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau.ARCHIVE FOOTAGE
State Department spokesman Ned Price says the United States is imposing sanctions on Russian officials after US intelligence concluded that Moscow orchestrated the near fatal poisoning of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. SOUNDBITE
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