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agenda. also stating that he has no property or wealth in the u.s. so he will not actually be affected by these sanctions, although the question, boris, people are asking is whether this will affect his ability to participate in the united nations general assembly in september which traditionally he would, of course, play a big part in. the other question that people are asking is about the timing of this. while the administration had, as you pointed out, been threatening to do this for weeks, there is some question about why they would choose this specific moment because it was just a couple of weeks ago that zarif was in new york, he was talking to journalists and he was hinting, boris, about the possibility that iran might actually be willing to negotiate or i should say renegotiate some kind of a nuclear deal with the u.s. this is something that analysts had thought would not happen because it would be seen essentially as a capitulation by iran. it would be seen as sort of a boon f