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“Sanction” said in 11 of 54 transcripts, 28 times.
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Sep 3, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…do you know there's no action? Would you say that putting secondary sanctions on India, the largest purchaser outside of China—they're almost equal— would…
Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…same time. But I want to have it end. We have economic sanctions. I'm talking about economic, because we're not going to get into a…
…are dying every single week. If I can save that by doing sanctions or by just being me or by using a very strong tariff…
Jul 28, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…good. Yes. So what I'm doing is, we're going to do secondary sanctions as—unless we make a deal. And we might make a deal…
…the answer is going to be, why wait? And it—would be sanctions and maybe tariffs—secondary tariffs. You know what a secondary tariff is…
Jul 8, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…I'm looking. The Senate is passing—and passed a very—very tough sanctions. But yes, I'm looking at it. It's an optional bill. It's totally…
Jul 7, 2025 Meeting 6 times
…area of the Middle East, including Bibi, we will—we took the sanctions off Syria. And I met the new leader. I was very impressed…
…the world." But I was very impressed by him. We took the sanctions off because we want to give them a chance. They would never…
…we have very—we—they call them "biting"—they are very biting sanctions. And I would love to be able to, at the right time…
Jun 5, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…by me. No, I haven't looked at it. It's a bill on sanctions, et cetera. When they take—I'm a very quick study. At the…
May 15, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…fight. And the other, of course, is Syria. We took out the sanctions. And that's been—I didn't even realize it's been many, many years…
…to give them a chance. They really have no chance with the sanctions. They were very biting. They were top of the line. Nobody could…
…we're going to give him a fighting chance by taking off the sanctions. So we've actually been praised for that. The Crown Prince of Saudi…
May 14, 2025 Meeting 6 times
…urging all nations to join us in fully and totally enforcing the sanctions that I just placed on Iran, and we also placed secondary sanctions…
…Muhammad and President Erdoğan of Turkey, I'm also ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria to give them a fresh start. It gives them a…
…to do so. So we've—we will be dropping all of the sanctions on Syria, which I think really is going to be a good…
Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…because Iran was broke. They had no money because we had secondary sanctions on and lots of other sanctions. And now, every single thing. Got…
…much. That's really good. Yes, please. Go ahead. Well, I already have sanctions on Russia. I put them there. If you remember Nord Stream 2…
Feb 26, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…same question? Yes, go ahead. Behind. Not now, no. No. We have sanctions on Russia. No, I want to see if we make a deal…
Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…had October 7. They had no money. Iran was broke. We had sanctions up on Iran that nobody has ever seen before. They were literally…