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		</div><p>The Trump administration has slapped 18 Iranian individuals and groups with sanctions for aiding the country&#8217;s non-nuclear weapons programmes.</p>
<p>The move aims to show that President Donald Trump is staying tough on Iran despite his moves to let the nuclear agreement remain in place for now.</p>
<p>The latest attempt to clamp down on Iran&#8217;s military financing ranged from an Iranian-based company that aided the country&#8217;s drone programme to a Turkey-based provider of naval equipment and a Chinese network that helped secure electronics for Tehran.</p>
<p>The sanctions freeze any assets in the US and prevent Americans from doing business with them.</p>
<p>Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said the sanctions &#8220;send a strong signal that the United States cannot and will not tolerate Iran&#8217;s provocative and destabilising behavior&#8221;.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;This administration will continue to aggressively target Iran&#8217;s malign activity, including their ongoing state support of terrorism, ballistic missile programme, and human rights abuses.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The announcement came hours after the Trump administration told Congress for a second time that Iran is complying with the nuclear deal and can retain sanctions relief, but officials insisted Tehran was breaching &#8220;the spirit&#8221; of the deal.</p>
<p>Mr Trump, who lambasted the 2015 pact as a presidential candidate, gave himself more time to decide whether to scuttle it or let it stand.</p>
<p>Instead, senior Trump administration officials sought to emphasise their deep concerns about Iran&#8217;s non-nuclear behaviour and vowed that those transgressions will not go unpunished.</p>
<p>During the campaign, Mr Trump told the American Israel Political Action Committee: <i>&#8220;My number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>In a shift from that earlier threat to dismantle the deal, officials said the administration was working with US allies to try to fix the deal&#8217;s flaws, including the expiration of some nuclear restrictions after a decade or more.</p>
<p>The officials also said the US would slap Tehran with new sanctions penalising it for developing ballistic missiles and other activity.</p>
<p>Mr Trump, secretary of state Rex Tillerson and &#8220;the entire administration judge that Iran is unquestionably in default of the spirit&#8221; of the agreement, one official said. That assessment carries no legal force, while Mr Trump&#8217;s certification that Iran is technically complying clears the way for sanctions to remain lifted.</p>
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