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Pompeo: Iran Sanctions "Effective, and We Will Enforce Them Everywhere"
(U.S. State Department) Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo said Friday in Bangkok: "Before the sanctions regime was put in place, there were 2.7-ish million barrels of oil a day being shipped by Iran to all around the world. The number for June and July, each of those two months, was less than a half a million barrels, could have been closer to zero than to half a million. The sanctions have been very effective, and we will enforce them everywhere." "We'll enforce them against any company, any country, that continues to violate those sanctions. We've already imposed sanctions on one company inside of China. We will continue to do that. It is absolutely imperative that we deny the ayatollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran from having the wealth and resources to build a nuclear program that could threaten anyone in the world."