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President Donald Trump speaks about Iran in the Grand Foyer of the White House on Wednesday. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

By Graham MacGillivray

Posted January 8, 2020 at 12:20pm

President Trump threatened new sanctions against Iran and called on several countries to leave the international agreement known as the JCPOA or “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” Wednesday morning in a televised address from the White House. It comes less than 24 hours after Tehran struck U.S. military targets inside Iraq. The president said that those attacks caused “minimal damage” and no loss of life.

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