The US Congress enacted legislation authorizing sanctions on certain foreign investment in Iran’s petroleum sector. The law extended US pressure beyond direct US-Iran commerce and put third-country firms at risk of penalties. This is part of the history of coercion through financial reach, not a neutral background to the later nuclear dispute.
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The law extended US sanctions pressure to some foreign investments.