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27 Jan 2008, 4:03 pm
[JURIST] Two former Iranian presidents and an ex-parliamentary speaker said Sunday that they plan to appeal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei [official website] to overturn a ban prohibiting moderates and reformists in Iran [JURIST news archive] from running in the March 2008 parliamentary election. [read post]
30 Jan 2013, 11:24 am by Alexandra Allan
On 2 January 2013, President Obama signed into law an act that imposes new sanctions on Iran. [read post]
17 Mar 2020, 6:52 pm by Steve Gottlieb
Our friends note that both President Bush and President Obama provided sanctions relief to deal with earthquakes in Iran. [read post]
14 Sep 2015, 6:24 am by Jack Goldsmith
Several people (including Senator Cruz, Eugene Kontorovich, Mike Pompeo and David Rivkin, and a majority of the members of the House of Representatives) have argued that the Iran Review Act bars the President from lifting U.S. sanctions against Iran. [read post]
9 Sep 2015, 3:47 pm by Rob Howse
  The anti-Iran deal camp is painfully aware that the President has enough votes to block any potential override of a congressional resolution disapproving the Iran deal. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 4:13 am by Paul Caron
: House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is demanding to know whether President Barack Obama, as part of his recent Iran deal, plans to waive tax penalties on Americans doing business there. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 6:28 am by Scott R. Anderson
What might these factors mean for U.S. military action against Iran? [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 12:59 pm by intern
President Trump must make a decision prior to October 15th on the certification of the Iran Nuclear Deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that was implemented in January 2016. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 2:54 am by Tom Smith
It may be too soon to say whether Iran is standing down from its attack on our military bases, as President Trump suggested yesterday appears to be the case. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 10:45 am by Jamie Davis
[JURIST] The daughter of former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani [BBC profile] was sentenced on Tuesday to six months in prison after being convicted of spreading propaganda against the country's current government. [read post]
On 8 May 2018, President Trump announced his decision to withdraw the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and to reimpose on Iran a multitude of sanctions that were lifted in January 2016 under the JCPOA. [read post]
18 Jul 2007, 3:30 pm
He wrote an open letter to President Bush "begging" him to "just stop worrying about Iran. [read post]
9 Mar 2015, 9:08 am by Steven D. Schwinn
Any nuclear agreement negotiated by President Obama could be short-lived, according to an open letter signed by forty-seven Senate Republicans today, and Iran should take note. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 7:40 am by Alexandra Farone
[JURIST] The Iran Supreme Court sentenced former vice president Mohammad Reza Rahimi to more than five years in prison and imposed a fine of 10 billion rials (USD $360,000), the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) [official website] reported [IRNA report] Wednesday. [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 10:44 am by Taylor Gillan
[JURIST] Human rights activists from various international organizations in late December called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani [BBC profile] to end the country's persecution of LGBT Iranians in a letter citing various attacks and rights violations. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 12:39 pm by Cody M. Poplin
  A prior authorization could instead limit the options a future president has in responding to minor-to-medium violations of the Iran deal. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 8:26 pm by Steve Gottlieb
On May 12 the President may well decide to withdraw from the Agreement. [read post]
13 Oct 2017, 9:43 am by Erik Slobe
On Thursday, US President Donald Trump [official website] issued a presidential memorandum [text] delegating many of the President's powers to sanction Iran granted by the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017 [Text] to the Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Homeland Security [official websites]. [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 12:59 pm by intern
President Trump must make a decision prior to October 15th on the certification of the Iran Nuclear Deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that was implemented in January 2016. [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 11:46 am by Jack Goldsmith
      As I have said before, the President’s Team has (as Presidents’ Teams are wont to do) stitched together his legal authorities in a clever way to empower him to pull off the very consequential Iran Deal. [read post]