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Barack Obama: By cutting off these financial institutions from the United States, today's action makes it clear that we will expose…

On the recordJuly 30, 2012
By cutting off these financial institutions from the United States, today's action makes it clear that we will expose any financial institution, no matter where they are located, that allows the increasingly desperate Iranian regime to retain access to the international financial system.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Statement on Sanctions Against Iran

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