{"id":10973,"date":"2018-08-09T22:33:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T22:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10973"},"modified":"2018-08-09T22:33:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T22:33:09","slug":"are-us-sanctions-realigning-global-alliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10973","title":{"rendered":"Are US sanctions realigning global alliances?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"92.8241353937\">\n<p>Earlier this week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a> reimposed a wide range of sanctions on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iran.html\"> Iran<\/a> following President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Washington called on other powers to join it but also issued a threat, telling governments to choose: do business with America, or Iran, not both. The response has been a nearly universal &#8220;no&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Washington&#8217;s closest allies have even promised legislation to protect their own companies against possible US reprisals.<\/p>\n<p>However, this has happened before. In 1996, the Helms-Burton Act sought to force the rest of the world to adhere to Washington&#8217;s long-standing boycott of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>A 1977 law penalised US companies honouring the Arab boycott of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>And as recently as 2014, shortly before the nuclear deal was completed, France&#8217;s largest bank, BNP Paribas, agreed to pay the US Justice Department an $8.9bn fine for violating US sanctions related to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Can extraterritorial sanctions really work? And if they don&#8217;t what will that mean for the US&#8217; broader role in the world?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Hoda Abdel-Hamid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Steven Rogers &#8211; a member of the Donald J Trump for President Advisory Board<\/p>\n<p>Scott Lucas &#8211; professor at the University of Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>Aniseh Bassiri-Tabrizi &#8211; research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the United States reimposed a wide range of sanctions on Iran following President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement. Washington called on other powers to join it but also issued a threat, telling governments to choose: do business with America, or Iran, not both. The response has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}