Julian Borger
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first heard Feb 2021
last heard 25 Aug
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They are there's a threat that if you don't
Cut your economic ties by a certain deadline and and they didn't go into how long that deadline would be.
And it seems to be sort of bespoke to different countries they're dealing with.
Right.
Uh but if you don't sever your ties by that deadline, then we're sanctioning you and your financial institutions will no longer be part of the dollar economy.
That's what they're threatening.
Absolutely, yeah.
There's the uh uh UAE, there's Turkey, there's India.
Obviously China is is a big one.
It it buys eighty percent of the uh the oil that uh Iran exports.
So it is by far the biggest tr trading partner and this introduces a lot of complications and this is mi maybe why the US did not stipulate time lapse.
alliance or name the countries involved because of the sensitivity of that.
They are hoping that China will buckle and bow without them having to directly uh confront Beijing.
And now whether that will work i is uh uh you know, uh to question the the signals coming out from China so far have not been encouraging for Washington.
They they've said we think these are illegal uh sanctions, they would be illegal sanctions if applied, uh and we will take all necessary measures to protect our interests, leaving it open, setting down a marker uh that they will not be bullied on the world market.
Yeah, I mean predicting how far Trump will go in any direction is hard.
And in the past he has walked up to the line in direct confrontations with China and generally pulled back.
And no one would be surprised now to see him pull back o over this.
He has a meeting with Xi Jinping coming up next w month uh and that is a could be a key summit in terms of laying the economic ground in the run up to the US election.
Yes, uh they've said they will retaliate, they've been utterly defiant throughout, they say we will we will strike back and suggested that they might go after any other country that d joins this US effort to isolate Tehran.
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