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U.S. Warns Countries to Cease Trade with Iran
(Wall Street Journal) Benoit Faucon - Jonathan Burke, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing, traveled across the Middle East and Europe in September to warn Iran's trading partners: You either trade with Tehran or Washington. The commercial strongarming is working. In recent days, Iran has seen its airlines cut off from critical regional routes and its top commercial bank stopped from transacting in the UAE and Turkey. "Iran has been a problem for 50 years, and we've kind of reached our peak at tolerating this problem," said Burke. Overall, the Treasury Department met with more than 50 countries. Diplomats reached out to nations like Azerbaijan and Georgia, which also shut out Iran's airlines.