US Threatens Sanctions Against Countries that Fail to Cut Off Iranian Oil Imports, Meets Resistance

• Has Iran attacked America? NO! Is Iran threatening American interests? NO! Is Iran a threat to America? NO! It is America which is attacking Iran and has been attacking Iran since the 1950s through various CIA coups. It is America which is supporting the terror group MEK against the Iranian government/people. So what are all these sanctions about? Iran refusing to sell oil using the dollar. It is about protecting the global US dollar hegemony.
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• US Threatens Sanctions Against Countries that Fail to Cut Off Iranian Oil Imports, Meets Resistance
  by https://www.rt.com/
  Washington may slap sanctions on governments that fail to reduce Iranian oil imports to “zero” by early November, a senior State Department official has warned. But some partners seem reluctant to follow the demand.
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  The US administration has been pushing its allies to follow US President Donald Trump’s lead after he decided to pull out of the landmark nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers. A senior State Department official told reporters on Tuesday he had been traveling to Europe and Asia to convince allies to isolate the “stream of Iranian funding.”
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  Washington’s allies, including those dependent on Iran’s oil, should ultimately refuse the imports by November 4 or else face secondary US sanctions. It was stressed that there are no waivers planned.
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  This mean that the Trump administration will not allow countries to gradually phase out Iran’s oil exports over the duration of many months like the Obama White House did.
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  “We have a lot of diplomatic muscle memory for urging, cajoling, negotiating with our partners to reduce their investments to zero,” the unnamed State Department official said.
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  Their trip did not included Turkey, and the largest importers of Iran’s oil – India and China – so far, but the countries are also to be urged to stop purchases by early November. India and China traditionally used to get a waiver from sanctions and kept trading with Iran even before the 2015 agreement, so speculation is rife as to whether they will manage to find workarounds this time.
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  The State Department acknowledges that cutting off Iranian oil imports completely is a “challenge” that no country “wants to do voluntarily”.
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