Biden holds the record for applying the most sanctions in American history

According to RCO News Agency, this Tuesday, the United States will witness its presidential election, while the outgoing president of the United States, Joe Biden, will continue his presidency only until mid-January.

Research conducted by Russia’s “Ria Novosti” News agency shows that Joe Biden has broken the record of imposing the largest amount of economic sanctions among the presidents in the history of the United States.

According to this news agency, after becoming the president of the United States in January 2021, Joe Biden showed that there is no different procedure in terms of the policy of applying economic sanctions compared to the presidents before him, such as “Donald Trump” and “Barack”. Obama” to undertake. However, in February 2022, after the full-scale escalation of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Biden imposed a large number of comprehensive economic sanctions against Russia.

Since February 2022, the Biden government has been applying economic sanctions not only against Russia but also against China and Iran with a steady beat.

According to this Russian news agency, usually the United States government enters 2 lists of entities that are targeted for sanctions: the first is called the list of “Special Nationals and Blocked Persons” (SDN) under the authority of the Office of Foreign Assets Control affiliated with the US Department of Treasury and The other is a list of “entities” owned by the US Department of Commerce.

The first list, compared to the list of institutions, which includes the names of over 400 institutions by the end of 2023, is considered as the most important indicator for the broad dimensions of the economic sanctions of the United States, in which more than 12,000 names can be seen.

Updates to the first list are a good indicator of the volume of actions taken by Washington to impose economic sanctions in a year.

The latest figures released on the website of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control show that the Joe Biden administration has made 421 updates to add new names to the first list since January 2021.

Between January 2021 and February 22, 2022, the number of new updates to the first list by the Biden administration reached 92. This is roughly the same as the average number of updates made by the former Donald Trump administration to the list in each year of his presidency.

Studies show that during the four years of his presidency from January 2017 to January 2021, Donald Trump’s administration updated this list a total of 362 times, which is an average of about 90 per year of the presidency.

However, after February 22, 2022, a wave of new sanctions from Washington caused the number of updates to the first list to increase significantly, reaching 98 updates for the same year, compared to 118 updates in 2023. Since the beginning of 2024, the Biden administration has added at least 113 new updates to this list.

Joe Biden’s administration has increased US sanctions by 15.5% compared to the previous administration by handling 420 updates to the list of these sanctions compared to 362 updates that took place in the Trump administration.

The statistics also show that the administration of former US Democratic President Barack Obama updated this list only 559 times during his eight years in office, and in the eight years of George W. Bush, the president before Barack Obama, the said list was updated only 291 times.

According to Ryan News, the number of updates in the first list still does not indicate how many new names were added to it each time, but the high repetition of these updates is a good indicator that shows how much each government has done in relation to imposing sanctions on opponents and enemies of the United States. .

In general, although Donald Trump has shown that he has acted more than the Obama and Bush administrations in the direction of imposing sanctions against America’s enemies and opponents, now it seems that in the four years of Joe Biden’s presidency, the record of the most economic sanctions in the history of the United States is from A President’s name has been registered according to the updates of the first list.

An American non-governmental organization called the “New American Security Center” also reaches similar figures according to its annual reports on Washington’s economic sanctions.

A total of 2,500 names were added to the first list in 2023, the organization says, and 61 percent of these new sanctions-related updates this year were related to Washington’s anti-Russian sanctions.

According to the research of this non-profit organization, during the years 2009 to 2021, the focus of the US sanctions program was different from the years after the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022.

In 2009, the United States made decisions about 67.8 percent of the new names it added to the sanctions list, citing the drug war program. In 2020, 40% of the new names that Washington added to the first list were based on its sanctions against Iran.

In Joe Biden’s first year in office, 32 percent of the total 765 new names added to the first-tier sanctions list that year came from sanctions related to Belarus, Myanmar, and China.

2022 marked a turning point in the US economic sanctions jump with the start of the military operations of the Russian army in Ukraine. This year, following the serious deterioration of bilateral relations between Russia and America, Washington’s sanctions against Moscow experienced a significant increase in intensity and dimensions. The severe sanctions imposed by the United States against Russia after that included sanctions against the Russian aerospace sector, financial sanctions, restrictions on exports and sanctions against Russian banks, along with sanctions on the shipbuilding and electronics sectors. In March 2022, Washington also banned the import of oil and energy from Russia.

Russian officials have repeatedly said that Western sanctions have seriously affected the global economy and have actually caused an increase in the price of electricity, fuel and food products in Europe and America by having a negative and adverse effect on the sanctions. Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized that despite the unprecedented Western and American sanctions against Moscow, this country has overcome the problems caused by using its capacities and resources.

The next presidential election of the United States will be held on Tuesday of this week (November 15). In this election, Kamala Harris, the vice president of the United States and the Democratic candidate, is competing with Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the White House.

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