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February 12, 2014

Hollande: France, U.S. Have Resolved Spying Row; Obama Warns Firms on Iran Sanctions 
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President Obama welcomed visiting French President François Hollande on
Tuesday with a White House news conference. Hollande said he thinks
trust has been restored between the two governments following the news
of National Security Agency spying on foreign leaders and citizens that
emerged last year. Obama, meanwhile, issued a warning to businesses on
flouting U.S. sanctions with Iran during the period of an interim
nuclear agreement.

President Obama: "Businesses may be exploring: Are there some
possibilities to get in sooner rather than later, if and when there is
an actual agreement to be had? But I can tell you that they do so at
their own peril right now, because we will come down on them like a ton
of bricks, you know, with respect to the sanctions that we control."

 

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