EVENT INFORMATION

5
Ougùstùs
1996

The United States enacts the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act

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📅 5 Ougùstùs 1996 📍 Iran

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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Personanan den e suseso aki

US Congress

Iranian workers and households

foreign energy firms

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

United States

Iran

Libya