Being named by the report could indeed set the stage for further action, including real-life sanctions later on, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Democrat from Maryland and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told VICE News.
As news of the deal reached Tehran, people took to the streets to celebrate, looking forward to the prospect of life without sanctions.
As they wait unhappily for America's bombs, some 2,000 Iraqi women recently came together to pray for peace.For the young, who can barely remember life before sanctions, the appeal of Islam is understandable.
"There is an increasing lack of support for life-ban sanctions," Chambers's manager Siza Agha said.
Ship brokers in London are on red alert for new business coming out of Iran as one of the world's largest oil producers bursts back into life, now that sanctions against it have been lifted.
And with most Iraqis stuck in the grinding poverty of life under economic sanctions, and with the events of Sept. 11 and the subsequent specter of American threats, there is a sense of pessimism quite different from last year's optimistic Army Day declarations.
Current and former national security officials said Mr. Bush had wanted to put down an early marker that he would renew efforts to contain Iraq, not only militarily, but also by breathing new life into the sanctions that have gradually fallen apart.
Iranians are already considering life without crippling sanctions.
Coming off an 8 4 season during which, according to USA Today's Paul Myerberg, "Attrition robbed Penn State of everything but the kitchen sink, or so we heard, so it was quite surprising when the sink, a few walk-ons, a mathematician, a local kid and a rookie coach went 8-2 after a sluggish start, pushing back against storm clouds and bringing PSU back from the abyss of life post-NCAA sanctions".
"In Islamic religious terms, taking a life is sometimes sanctioned and even highly praised, and I thought that event was just such a time".
For the Mormon community, the keeping of small livestock is a routine part of life and hence sanctioned by city ordinance.
