AFP
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NOS News•today, 00:48
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Iran has imposed sanctions on 61 Americans, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. According to Tehran’s reading, dozens of Americans have rallied behind the exiled opposition movement of the Iranian People’s Mujahideen (MEK). The sanctions come amid a diplomatic standoff with the United States over the Iran deal.
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Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for former President Trump, has also been added to the list, as has John Bolton, a former security adviser. The sanctions mean that the Iranian government can seize American assets in Iran. In practice it probably comes down to mainly a symbolic act, because such possessions do not seem to really exist.
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It is not the first time that Tehran has imposed measures against American leaders. Dozens of people were also sanctioned in April and January.
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Since November last year, Iran and the US have been in talks again about resuming the 2015 Iran deal. In 2018, then-President Trump ended the agreement package. Nuclear agreements were still discussed in Qatar last June, but now there seems to be an impasse.
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