US-Iran sanctions: What do they mean? - BBC News

The US is implementing economic sanctions on Iran after pulling out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
But what are these sanctions, and what impact will they have have?
Paul Adams, the BBC's diplomatic correspondent, reports

[abduldeay]

who is watching this 30 April 2019, Iran is selling its oil, china is buying more, business is as usual, nothing will change

[gwmkiwi]

It is completely wrong in every respect for the USA to remove itself from an international agreement it is party to and then to threaten with reprisals those who choose to remain in that agreement. I hope the remaining countries and others stand up to the threats from the USA.

[Aman-nlvz]

This is propaganda.. Iranian people support their gouvernement

[sids]

IRAN is one of the strongest country in middle east , you can not defeat them through these sanctions..

[nigeljohnson]

Iran elects a moderate leader who appears to be taking his country towards more western values, and what does Trump do, punishes the country for attempting to reform. It would have been better if he had established a dialogue with a view to encouraging "good" behaviour and discouraging the"bad".
The risk now is that a hard line leader will replace Rafsanjani. It is a fact that while the US can make life difficult for the Iranian people, they are unable to stop a hard line regime from pursuing the acquisition of nuclear weapons. The US failed before when Iran was isolated. The current action by the US seems to be aimed at re-radicalising the country and triggering a war. The current path will lead inevitably to an attack by Israel and the conflict that will follow.

[apax]

Back in History wars were fought with weapons and men, nowadays they're fought with politics and economics.

And the second variant causes more long term harm than the first does. Believe that

[dishamukherjee]

Iran will recover ... best wishes from neighbouring states

[minetdbrogs]

Iran did great since 1979 ..actually fabulously....an industrial superpower it has become...same thing with china being communist....see vietnam...north korea ...industrial revolutions...and progress....meanwhile take a look at countries obeying western stups...take a look at africa...abidding to monetary tricks of carrot and stick...take a look at iraq...saudi arabia...south korea even...japan!....they acheived greatness ?

[cg._slowburning]

It's a bad thing we as America don't stick to our agreements

[Trig_tig]

But if one country reject to pay us sanctions?

[lawrencewilley]

US-IRAN sanctions, every country in the EU should have nothing to do with IRAN it's the Breeding ground of TERRORISTS, DEATH, RAPE, PEADOPHILIA, GROOMING and so on

[jamiebutler]

Eventually everyone is gona get sick of our( USA) bullying and world policing.

[CraigWinstanley]

The BBC is at it again, only focussing on the part of the story that suits its given agenda. In August 1941, the Allied powers, Britain and the Soviet Union, invaded and occupied Iran in order to secure their oilfields. Britain has had its dirty hands on the oil of Iran in the past. When the pro-Western backed Shah and the pro-Western backed Prime Minister, Fazlollah Zahedi, let the oil flow the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company changed its name to British Petroleum (1954). However, the people of Iran were so opposed to the policy of that government it would not permit the sellout. Since then there has been continual meddling in the affairs of Iran by Britain and the US CIA. Iran (and before the 1930’s, Persia) has not invaded another country in over three hundred years (but they have defended themselves). BBC, why don’t you tell the whole truth? This is all about oil, the influence of Israel on the USA administration, and the US Fed trying to get power in Iran.

[justinwest]

why do the subtitles say "Incivilities" but the speaker says "Instabilities"?

[abbaseducationalsociety]

Iran is the great. It will come out of economic difficulty I wish .Iran supper power .God deveste america like storm .earthquake and tsunami.

[kaitydunston]

International law applies to cyber operations as it does to other state activities. Based on UN charter declaring cyber attack is unlawful and condemned. if US officially declared that launched cyber attack it is cowardly action that acts like criminal, and opened the gate officially for all sort of criminal activity. Only the coward act unlawful and do not abide by law.q

Governments always trying to bring each other down. Wish they could act like the majority of human beings. Be a good neighbor and mind your own business

[amanjhariya]

And now what happened some days earlier made everything worse than ever before

[secquorashowers]

I've been reading the comments and as an American, I have no idea TF he is thinking, honestly. Not only will he hurt Iran, but the United States too. Any country that is webbed into another one will feel the effects. I'm not 100% sure he doesn't have some kind of deteriorating brain thing going on. He stays calm and then he's all over the board. I just wanted to let the people on here know that the people of the United States have no say in what he does. I know I wouldn't have made this decision. We get to see only small bits of what's really going on, just like you.

[telltrue]

Stay strong Iran don't mind Domp! speech