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Scott Bessent: “We put more sanctions on yesterday. We sanctioned their two…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Published | Video Starts at 44:10

We'll see that it'll be anything that's taken off is taken off slowly if and there'll be milestones that the Iranian regime would have to meet. And I can tell you We put more sanctions on yesterday. We sanctioned their two airlines. We've got some other financial targets. There's a lot more that we can do if we have to. And there are some things that we can take off to help the Iranian people. (44:10–44:18)

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Asserts that new sanctions were imposed on Iran, including on two airlines.

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