Henri E. Cauvin (NYT) ASIA JAPAN: CLINTON ORDERS SANCTIONS -- President Clinton ordered the first sanctions against Japan for expanding its hunting of whales, ordering that Japanese fishermen will be prohibited from fishing in United States waters if they are opened to foreign fleets this year.
Infantino remains confident that the rules, which could see the first sanctions being applied in 2014-15, "have teeth".
But Iran's answer is a raspberry.Despite that, the first sanctions to emerge from the discussion now getting under way at the Security Council will be feeble.
Mr Putin worked hard to ensure that the first sanctions resolution on Iran, passed in December, was as feeble as he could make it.
But Iran was in violation of that demand through most of Mr. Bush's second term, and suffered fewer economic consequences than it has under Mr. Obama, who has imposed the first sanctions against Iran's oil revenues.
The ban was one of the first sanctions Tehran asked to be lifted, points out Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, a Washington-based think-tank.
"We'll retain huge leverage — the leverage that comes from cutting into their oil sales," says R. Nicholas Burns, the former under secretary of state for policy who organized the first sanctions against Iran during the Bush administration.
A1 Sanctions in Darfur Violence The United Nations Security Council, in the first sanctions in the violence that has killed more than 200,000 people in Darfur, passed a resolution banning travel by four Sudanese accused of war crimes.
Diplomats point out that these are the first sanctions imposed since last June's disputed presidential elections, which brought mass protests against the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and discredited the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
UNITED NATIONS, April 25 — The Security Council passed a resolution on Tuesday imposing the first sanctions in the violence that has killed more than 200,000 villagers and driven two million people from their homes in Darfur, in western Sudan.
While the first sanctions will be lifted this week, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which enforces embargoes, is working to track financial flows out of Yugoslavia.
