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Pompeo announces new sanctions on Iran’s nuclear power complex

By John Siciliano
Published May 4, 2019 2:12pm ET
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Pompeo announces new sanctions on Iran’s nuclear power complex
In this file photo Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, and released by the International Iran Photo Agency, Iranian technicians work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. In a major setback to Iran's nuclear program, technicians will have to unload fuel from the country's first atomic power plant because of an unspecified safety concern, a senior government official said. | (AP Photo/IIPA, Ebrahim Norouzi, file)

Saturday brought new sanctions on Iran’s nuclear reactor and power plant complex aimed at blocking the nation’s development of nuclear weapons.

“Starting May 4, assistance to expand Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant beyond the existing reactor unit will be exposed to sanctions,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced late in the evening on Friday.

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