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During an address explaining the renewed US policy regarding the Iran nuclear deal, Trump slams the conduct of the 'Iranian dictatorship' and 'its sponsorship of terrorism'. SOUNDBITE
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accused his Democratic counterpart Hillary Clinton of selling "about 20 percent of America's uranium supply to the Russians," while campaigning in Akron, Ohio, on Monday.
Nikki Haley seeks to warn Republican voters away from rival Donald Trump after he defeated her in the New Hampshire primary, saying nominating the controversial former US president would spell victory for Joe Biden in November. "The worst kept secret in politics is how badly the Democrats want to run against Donald Trump," she tells a watch party in Concord after US networks projected she would lose the primary. "A Trump nomination is a Biden win," she says. SOUNDBITE
The White House denies that the unfreezing of $6 billion of Iranian funds to help secure the release of five US citizens was effectively a ransom payment. "This is not a payment of any kind. It's not ransom," says White House national security spokesman John Kirby, pushing back against criticism of the deal. SOUNDBITE
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that the United States will offer no sanctions relief to Iran under a draft deal that would free five Americans. "In any event, in any respect, Iran will not be receiving any sanctions relief," Blinken tells reporters when asked about the expected release of $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).