“Iranian officials announced they would breach the enrichment limit within a matter of hours”
In the first half of May, American companies bought five million barrels of "Urals" oil - a volume comparable to the cumulative oil exports from Russia to the United States from January to April 2019.
Since 1979’ revolution of Iran, the bilateral ties between Iran and US have been suffering from a long standing rivalry.
The US is imposing new sanctions on Russia over the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK.
A proposal was made in the US House Committee on Armed Services to empower the US president to introduce sanctions against arms contractors affiliated with the Russian military-industrial complex. The proposal has been published on the committee’s site under the auspices of a bill on US Defence Department expenditures and policy for 2019.
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