We are reaching out to banks, including Chinese banks, to, to remind them of that any Iranian goods and the purchases that are of are forbidden and that the dollars would be sanctioned and that We will press for secondary sanctions if there's a problem. So the Gulf countries, UAE and others are done trying to use Iranian assets and accept them. I believe that there's been a real step, function change in their willingness to tolerate their neighbor, which, you know, one understood. (02:28–02:32)
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