Russia Punishes Trump’s Enemies
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has investigated and sued Trump for alleged fraud, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who reportedly ignored pressure from Trump to reverse the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, were placed on the list.
Also sanctioned was Jack Smith, the Justice Department special counsel overseeing the investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and Trump's handling of classified documents after leaving the White House.
Another person singled out by the Kremlin was Lieutenant Michael Byrd, the U.S. Capitol Police Officer who shot pro-Trump rioter Ashli Babbitt during the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Although Byrd has no public connection to Russia, he was called a "thug" by Trump, who pushed unsuccessfully for the officer to be charged in Babbitt's death.
Other prominent figures on the new list from Russia include former President Barack Obama and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, as well as late-night television hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Myers.
"Needless to say, nobody from Fox News or the extreme right is being sanctioned," Swedish economist Anders Åslund wrote in the Kyiv Post.
In a new list of sanctions, the Kremlin penalized prominent adversaries of former President Donald Trump who have no known connections to Russian policy.
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Putin is an anti-Obama operation, not an anti-American operation. Iran benefits from peacenik Democrats and their JCPOA. Neocons such a Putin and Trump are not helping Iran by supporting Republicans in the US.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1747 supported by Putin and Russia was a United Nations Security Council resolution, written with reference to some IAEA reports, that tightened the sanctions imposed on Iran in connection with the Iranian nuclear program. It was adopted unanimously by the United Nations Security Council on 24 March 2007.
In June 2006, the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany offered a package of economic incentives including transfer of technology in the civilian nuclear field, in exchange for Iran to give up permanently its disputed uranium enrichment programme.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1803 – passed on 3 March 2008 and supported by Russia. Extended the asset freezes and called upon states to monitor the activities of Iranian banks, inspect Iranian ships and aircraft, and to monitor the movement of individuals involved with the program through their territory, impose travel restrictions on sanctioned persons, and bar exports of nuclear- and missile-related dual-use goods to Iran.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1929 – passed on 9 June 2010, supported by Russia. Banned Iran from participating in any activities related to ballistic missiles, tightened the arms embargo, travel bans on individuals involved with the program, froze the funds and assets of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, and recommended that states inspect Iranian cargo, prohibit the servicing of Iranian vessels involved in prohibited activities, prevent the provision of financial services used for sensitive nuclear activities, closely watch Iranian individuals and entities when dealing with them, prohibit the opening of Iranian banks on their territory and prevent Iranian banks from entering into relationship with their banks if it might contribute to the nuclear program, and prevent financial institutions operating in their territory from opening offices and accounts in Iran.
Russia did not defend Iran in the UNSC, got it involved in outside pressure from the US to weaken Iran.