'Sanctions are coming', the sanctions are on the way, so with a message on Twitter Donald Trump announces the restoration of all US sanctions against Iran in starting from Monday 5 November. Mostly oil and banks will be affected. This is in an attempt to cut off the legs of the Tehran government, even if the White House keeps repeating that the goal is not to overthrow the regime. While the republic of the ayatollahs play down: "No worries," says a spokesman for foreign minister Javad Zarif. However, there will be eight countries that will be able to continue to import Iranian oil without incurring US sanctions, and among these there could also be Italy, along with other allied countries such as Japan, South Korea, India. The list could then also include states such as China and Turkey. While no other European country should enjoy the exemption: a slap in the face to the Old Continent which continues to express strong criticism of the Trump administration's hard line on the Iran dossier. In practice, all the sanctions that were frozen with the historic nuclear agreement of July 2015, strongly supported by Barack Obama and also signed by Europe, Russia and China, will be reinstated. The line of 'zero tolerance' will continue until the Islamic republic stops supporting terrorism, destabilizing the Middle East region - Syria and Yemen - and moving forward with its nuclear and missile programs, according to the White House. Tehran sends the disputes back to the sender judging them to be groundless.
