Day 886

[matt (Matt Kiser)]

1/ Trump signed an executive order imposing new, "hard-hitting" sanctions on Iran in response to the downing of an unmanned U.S. drone last week. The new sanctions will deny Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and eight Iranian military commanders access to "key financial resources and support." Trump also warned that U.S. "restraint" has limits. (New York Times / Washington Post / NBC News / Wall Street Journal / CNBC)

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/06/24/day-886/

[dragonfly9]

@matt

The Trump administration moved most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there with inadequate food, water and sanitation

What a little bad press will do…WOW. Taking action to save face, not really about the children (said very cynically, and truthfully)

[Windthin (David Bythewood)]

Iran Says New U.S. Sanctions End Any Chance of Diplomacy

Tehran calls sanctions useless as Bolton calls for negotiations on a new agreement to supersede the 2015 nuclear pact

Trump, Iran Step Up Rhetoric After Washington’s Sanctions Threat