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Yesterday's key developments
- The United States imposed new sanctions on Iran targeting network allegedly using front companies in the United Arab Emirates and China to export liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from Iran to South and Eastern Asia by falsely flagging it as originating in Oman, the Treasury said.
- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi dismissed the idea of his country's supreme leader meeting US President Donald Trump, after Trump floated the prospect. "I think we should be realistic and think and live in the real world," Araghchi said.
- Lebanese President Joseph Aoun urged Iran not to interfere in his country in an interview broadcast on Friday, also telling the Tehran-backed Hezbollah that diplomacy was the only solution to the conflict with Israel. He said Iran's leader's were "using Lebanon as a bargaining chip" in their negotiation with the United States which was "unacceptable".
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
