UAE extends Iran sanctions to the soccer pitch

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By James M. Dorsey
The United Arab Emirates has extended an array of unilateral and multilateral measures that ban Iranian oil imports as well as trade and financial transactions with the Islamic republic and freeze Iranian assets to the soccer pitch.
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