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Barney Frank: “Critically I made sure that the United States reserve the right to maintain and enforce existing sanctions and even to…”

On the recordMay 11, 2016
Critically I made sure that the United States reserve the right to maintain and enforce existing sanctions and even to deploy new sanctions to address those continuing concerns which we fully intend to do when circumstances warrant.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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The President emphasized the U.S. retains the right to impose sanctions on Iran despite the nuclear deal.

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