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"U.S. banks increasingly are not willing to do business with foreign financial institutions doing business with Iran," said Mark Dubowitz, an energy specialist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a nonpartisan think tank.
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Chinese Bank Pulls Out of Pakistan-Iran Pipeline Project
by Paul Richter and Alex Rodriguez
The Los Angeles Times
March 14, 2012
https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/17357/chinese-bank-pulls-out-of-pakistan-iran-pipeline