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Trump tweets a photo of himself with the words “Sanctions are Coming”
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif mocked Washington’s “largest-ever” sanctions package today, describing it as a “desperate” psychological ploy.
“The US designated a bank that was closed six years ago and a ship that sank in a widely televised saga,” he tweeted, with the hashtage #USisIsolated.
President Donald Trump’s renewed sanctions against Tehran, which he believed would play well with voters as they took part in the US midterm polls, included mothballed Boeing 747s, the Tat Bank that closed in 2012 and the Sanchi oil tanker that exploded and sank off China months ago.
While Trump praises the ‘successful’ attack on Iranian nuclear sites, the question arises as to the real motives behind this escalation. MARC VANDEPITTE explores the issues
