VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-19
“far and away the most consequential lever that Trump could pull”
Brett Erickson · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-19
Erickson called sanctions on Chinese banks doing business with Iran the most consequential option available.
This quote was mechanically extracted from the cited article and verified as an exact substring of the source text before publication. Attribution follows the article's own wording.