Two, we are looking at a range of options, including -- I mentioned targeted sanctions, but including and not exclusive to targeted sanctions.
But Ecowas warned the coup leaders in Guinea-Bissau that if they failed to agree to the deployment within 72 hours, they face targeted sanctions.
For now, the European Union, which is set to review its list of targeted sanctions in the next few days, seems to have adopted a wait-and-see attitude.
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More than a year after the Security Council voted to authorize targeted sanctions against individuals in Sudan, the council took some limited steps yesterday to bar travel and freeze assets of four people.
And as I said, we are looking at additional measures that we can take, and we continue to enforce the measures already taken, the longstanding sanctions against Syria and the specific targeted sanctions that we announced recently.
Others hope that Mr Mugabe, now 87 and in failing health, might, along with his generals, be persuaded to retire peacefully if all were guaranteed immunity from prosecution, the removal of targeted sanctions by the West, and the retention of their riches.
What I will say is that we are very concerned about it, as I think many others countries are, and we are looking at a variety of options, a range of options, including targeted sanctions, more targeted sanctions aimed at the Syrian government.
The companies being targeted with sanctions: FaraTech, the Neda Industrial Group, Aria Nikan Marine Industry, Towled Abzar Boreshi, Iran Pouya, Terjerat Gostar and Tarh O Palayesh.
North Korea was targeted with sanctions by the U.N.
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Mrs Clinton said that Iran's petrochemical industry, oil and gas industry and financial sector would be targeted by the sanctions.
Sanctions targeted the supporters and relatives of the military junta and all those involved in contributing to the "destabilization" of Mali, the African Union said.
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Iran's economy has been hit hard by U.S. and European oil and financial sanctions over its nuclear activities, while another round of sanctions targeted the crude sales that make up about half of Tehran's revenue.
Under those circumstances, members of Congress and private-sector activists may in the future seek targeted capital-market sanctions in response to egregious developments abroad.
But whether the two vote yes, or merely abstain, they will work to keep UN sanctions narrowly targeted on the individuals, companies and banks most directly involved in Iran's nuclear and missile programmes.
The head of the German parliament's Foreign Relations Committee, Ruprecht Polenz, says Washington should show more patience and not be in such a rush to get targeted U.N. sanctions.
But Reeves contended the sanctions proposed in this case were so targeted that he could not imagine them being used indiscriminately.
In a move that signals the Obama administration may be getting more serious about cleaning up graft in Afghanistan, the U.S. government on Friday targeted prominent Afghan bankers who have long been suspected of ties to corruption and the Taliban, imposing financial sanctions against them and a money exchange business because they facilitated billions of dollars in transactions for two drug organizations.
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