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U.S. Sanctions on Iran Already Have a Humanitarian Exemption
(USA Today) Kim Hjelmgaard and Deirdre Shesgreen - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday that the U.S. is canceling a decades-old economic treaty with Iran after a ruling by the International Court of Justice to lift any sanctions-related measures that affect Tehran's imports of humanitarian goods. Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the "U.S. sanctions already have a humanitarian exemption for food, medicine and agricultural commodities - an exemption the mullahs often use to make money on the black market while denying the Iranian people access to humanitarian goods. As for civil aviation, perhaps the court should be better educated on how Iran misuses its civil air fleet to ship arms to terrorist organizations."