{"id":402007,"date":"2026-08-30T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/402007\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:40:12","slug":"trump-remains-vague-on-sanctions-plan-for-irans-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/402007\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump remains vague on sanctions plan for Iran\u2019s partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ap26239652817637_jpg-780x470.jpg\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-main-img=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  President Donald Trump listens as a reporter asks a question in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday.<br \/>\nManuel Balce Ceneta\/AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmtbtgzrh00043b6spizvi8gd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">President Donald Trump remained vague Friday when asked about his campaign to choke off Iran\u2019s economy, refusing to say whether he planned to sanction Chinese banks or if he\u2019d discussed the matter with foreign counterparts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmtbtgzrh00053b6sbcfht7h7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">The administration announced earlier this week Operation Economic Outcast, which threatened tough new sanctions on Iran\u2019s trading partners if they didn\u2019t cut off ties to Tehran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmtbtgzrh00063b6srrzwe1k6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">But the administration stopped short of putting in place any new measures, and so far hasn\u2019t listed any major financial institutions from China \u2014 Iran\u2019s largest trading partner \u2014 as being subject to US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmtbtgzrh00073b6sej9n0lkl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">Trump bristled when asked why he wasn\u2019t applying new sanctions on Chinese banks doing business with Tehran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmtbtgzrh00083b6sjj0srnmj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\u201cWho said I\u2019m not? You don\u2019t know if I\u2019m doing it,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t have to announce everything, do I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmtbtgzrh00093b6sbhbcq87m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">Later, asked which world leaders he\u2019d discussed the pressure campaign with, Trump suggested it wasn\u2019t on his agenda, even though Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that Trump was placing calls to foreign counterparts \u201cwith specific requests to cease their interactions with the regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmtbtgzrh000a3b6sjoi9vlok@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\u201cThere\u2019s not a lot to speak to. We don\u2019t want to speak to them,\u201d Trump said Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019re not looking to meet or anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump listens as a reporter asks a question in the Oval Office of the White House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[750,1982,176,63392,2057,12842,8567,592,109826,1993],"class_list":["post-402007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-donald-trump","tag-egypt","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-israel","tag-tehran","tag-trump-administration","tag-us","tag-us-president","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/117184982521046990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}