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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called a trade mechanism launched by European countries to bypass renewed US sanctions a “bitter joke” on Thursday, in a speech aired by state TV. “This financial channel they recently set up resembles a joke, a bitter joke,” Khamenei told a thousands-strong congregation at a shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad, where he …

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