US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to im- pose sanctions on Iran’s iron, steel, aluminum, and copper sectors – which he described in a statement as “the regime’s largest non-petro- leum-related sources of export revenue.” Citing his decision a year ago to cease US participation “in the horrible, one-sided Iran nuclear deal,” Trump added that his latest order “targets Iran’s revenue from the export of industrial metals — 10% of its export economy — and puts other nations on notice that allowing Iranian steel and other metals into your ports will no longer be tolerated.”
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