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Memo Pushes for White House to Bar Iran From International Financial System

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Memo Pushes for White House to Bar Iran From International Financial System GERMANY, BONN - AUGUST 28: Symbol photo on the topics US sanctions against Iran, Dollar, Rial, Toman, rial devaluation, inflation, etc. The photo shows crumpled Iranian rial banknotes (20.000 and 2000 rial) with the portrait of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in a hand. (Photo by Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images) Left unchecked, the document says, the Islamic Republic will use whatever means it can to continue terror financing weekly Standard  October 11, 2018-  s the Trump administration prepares to reimpose hefty pre-nuclear deal sanctions on Iranian banks in November, one part of the effort—banning Iran from a key global financial messaging service—is facing resistance from Europe and some in the Treasury Department. A  research memo  circulating among policymakers Thursday counters that resistance and argues that...