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Iran's economic minister Ali Madanizadeh on Aug 24 laughed off the US latest economic pressure and secondary sanctions measures under Operation Economic Outcast against Tehran, saying that they had anticipated such measures and had a two-year plan in place.

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00:18We are going to hold everyone accountable and this is economic
00:24asphyxiation of this regime and Jennifer, as I said, no one should test our resolve.
00:54We are going to have a failure to do this.
01:01We have been waiting for this.
01:07We have been waiting for this.
01:11We have been waiting for this.
01:22Yes, it was really bad for people. We can't do it.
01:28The people who have made it, the whole series of people that have been created,
01:35we can't do it. We can't do it. We can't do it.
01:43We can't do it. We can't do it. We can't do it.
01:59We can't do it.
02:02We want to carry on our government.
02:07We can't do it.
02:09We can't do it.
02:11We can't do it.
02:15We can't do it.
02:16We can't do it.
02:17I would like to say that the world is the same.
02:21Especially the personality of Trump,
02:24which makes every minute a sentence.
02:26I think it's the most important thing to do.
02:33It's the most important thing to do.
02:35I think it's the most important thing to do.
02:36I think it's the most important thing to do.
02:40But I don't want to do it.
02:43I think we are very close to the atmosphere and the atmosphere of our people, and our guests will control
02:58our airways.
02:58We do control and make the airways and save our airways and we take the airways into the airways and
03:09the airways.
03:15Is it fair to say kinetic strikes are on a pause right now, or do you—
03:20No.
03:20If we need to use kinetic strikes, we'll use them.
03:23If Iran is foolish enough to overplay their hand or mess with the American military, we'll
03:30do what we need to do.
03:31But economic pressure, we know, hurts them the most right now.
03:35But by no means are we foreclosing using kinetic strikes anywhere in the Strait of Hormuz
03:41or around Iran.
03:42With munitions purchases being a top priority for you and the budget coming under pressure
03:46as Congress looks to do midterm elections and the balance of power may change, is it possible
03:52that you may choose to cut the amount of munitions purchases if you don't get the $1.5 billion,
03:57or is that sacred?
03:58I don't think so.
03:59It's pretty sacred.
04:00And we've cut a lot of these deals, as you've seen, five to seven-year deals with companies
04:04who are now already investing, have made down payments of their own money on new plants and
04:08manufacturing.
04:09So this is not a nip around the margins of a few more weapons.
04:13This is a generational investment of 2X, 3X, 4X more munitions of the ones we know we're
04:17going to need and use.
04:18Those investments will be made.
04:20And, of course, the media has made a lot of false claims about a lot of things.
04:24We feel really good about where we are and about our ability to make sure we've got the
04:27munitions in the future.
04:28The entities that are sort of caught still transacting business with Iran would be put
04:34on the Treasury blacklist, the specially designated nationals list, which is something that is meant
04:41to cut you off from dollar transactions.
04:45For established companies, established banks, that can be viewed as kind of a death sentence.
04:52If you're trying to, like, do business internationally, you kind of have to be able to handle dollar
04:58transactions.
04:58And if you can't do that, then, you know, you're going to have a hard time sort of staying
05:04in business.
05:09Or you know, what to do?
05:10You know, gone out of the past.
05:10Why are the others now?
05:10You know, you've got the many properties.
05:14It's been a huge, huge part of the system that's going to happen.
05:14I don't know what you've got all kinds of things, but you've got all kinds of stuff.
05:18It's always getting the most tiny part of the system.
05:18I'm gonna understand what you are.
05:19I'm gonna tell you, it's gonna make the most significant part of this.

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