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Warning that nations joining the US ‘economic war’ would be deemed enemies, Iran said the move could impact trading partners including China.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei said that "not a single drop of oil will be shipped from the Persian Gulf and the Strait of…