The US treasury responded to the request of the Department of State–Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, which sought authorization related to the purchase in Lebanon of Iranian-origin petroleum products. The Office of the Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) prohibited the US Department of State, the United States Agency for International ...
A bipartisan group of United States senators called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to press Bahrain’s Al-Khalifah regime to end its “violent, systemic repression” of people in the tiny Gulf kingdom. “We write to raise our concerns about the government of Bahrain’s troubling rights record and to better understand ...