US piles fresh sanctions on Iran
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says sanctions against Iran have so far ‘deprived the regime of billions in revenue’. – EPA pic, January 11, 2020.
THE United States piled new sanctions on Iran’s already crippled economy yesterday and defended the killing of a top Iranian leader, saying he had been planning an “imminent” attack on US embassies. The sanctions, announced at the White House, marked the latest salvo in a US-Iranian confrontation that risked sliding into war a week ago with the deadly US drone attack on general Qasem Soleimani, who was by some measures the second most influential person in Iran.
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