US President Donald Trump has announced a new campaign to isolate Iran and punish its trading partners.
War on Iran: Trump announces campaign to isolate Iran economically US President Donald Trump has announced a new campaign to isolate Iran and punish its trading partners, calling it the ‘most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country’. Al Jazeera’s Mohammad Saleh has the latest.
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