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With the first wave of reinstated sanctions hitting Iran on August 7, 2018, German carmaker Daimler froze its plans to expand into the Iranian market. Daimler, the world’s biggest luxury carmaker and commercial vehicles manufacturer, has reversed its 2016 plans to re-establish ties with Iran’s automotive industry.
In 2016 Daimler established a joint venture with

On August 7, 2018, the U.S. reinstated the first wave of sanctions against Iran as the 90-day wind-down period concluded. The Trump administration reimposed sanctions that prohibit Iran purchasing U.S. banknotes, commercial aircraft, trading gold and metals, and business with Iran’s automotive sector.
The snapback provisions were evoked by President Trump’s May 8, 2018 decision

There has been much controversy surrounding Nike’s decision to not provide Iran’s National Team (Team Melli) players with boots.
The decision follows U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA, an international nuclear agreement with Iran and world powers including the United States. On Friday, Nike said, “The sanctions mean that, as a U.S. company, we cannot

President Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”), commonly known as the “Iran Deal”, on May 8, 2018. The United States, Germany, UK, China, and Russia collectively signed the JCPOA in an effort to regulate Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the removal of multilateral economic and

On December 29, 2016, President Obama took action to expand the scope of the Department of the Treasury’s Cyber-related Sanctions Program to include, among other things, tampering with election processes.  Specifically, the President issued an Executive Order, Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities.
This Executive