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“The president holds all of the cards here”
on US officials arguing economic pressure and Hormuz control give Trump leverage over Iran
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Tommy Pigott quotes
State Department principal deputy spokesperson
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“we have hundreds of billions of dollars that the Iranian regime is losing every single day”
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