U.S. President Donald Trump has based his foreign policy on a series of harsh economic blockades, each designed to frighten, coerce, and even starve the target country into submitting to American demands.
As such, economic blockades by the United States should be scrutinized by the United Nations Security Council under international law and the U.N. Charter.
During the years 1990-2016, the U.S. launched two major wars with Iraq (1990 and 2003), as well as wars in Afghanistan (2001), Libya (2011), and Syria (2012).
While the Syrian War is often described as a civil war, it was in a fact a war of regime change led by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia under a U.S. presidential directive called Timber Sycamore.
It constantly risks flaring into outright war, as occurred with Iran this month.
U.S. sanctions against Iran have been in place more or less continuously since 1979 .
The U.S. sanctions are in direct contravention of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorsed the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.
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