Trump slaps new sanctions on Iran over drone shootdown
President Donald Trump speaks to the media with Polish President Andrzej Duda in the Oval office at the White House on September 18, 2018 in Washington,DC.President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order imposing "hard-hitting" new sanctions on Iran in response to the downing of an unmanned U.S. drone last week.
"We will continue to increase pressure on Tehran," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "Never can Iran have a nuclear weapon."his plans to slap additional sanctions on Iran to deter the country from obtaining nuclear weapons.Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have grown since Trump pulled the U.S. out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal that had been brokered during the Obama administration.
Those tensions ratcheted up in recent weeks, following attacks on two oil tankers near the strait of Hormuz that the U.S. alleges were executed by Iran. Iran denies that it carried out the attacks.
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