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Pompeo: Sanctions cut Iran's military budget by 24 percent

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The Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign on Iran has led to a 24 percent cut in the Iranian government's proposed military and security budget for next year, said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement on Wednesday.

Pompeo stressed in a statement that oil and petrochemicals are the two primary sources of income for the Iranian regime to oppress the people and promote its malicious foreign goals, citing Washington's sanctions on a Vietnamese company and its CEO.
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