Washington 0
19 July 2018

A senior U.S. diplomat asserted that "our maximum economic pressure campaign is designed simply to deny Iran the financial resources that it uses to facilitate terrorism", adding that "Iran has spent over $16 billion supporting Assad and its proxies in Iraq and in Yemen, and it... gives $700 million a year to Lebanese Hizbollah". 

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