This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, June 25th. I'm Kate Trinko.

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Now on to our top news.

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday imposing new sanctions on Iran, a country

that's already being crushed by existing sanctions.

The President said the new sanctions were a strong and proportionate response

to Iran's increasingly provocative actions, likely alluding to last week when Iran shot down

an unmanned U.S. drone over international waters.

The president had initially approved a military strike in response to that, but then called

it off.

The new sanctions specifically target Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah, and other high-ranking officials.

Here's what the President said Monday.

The Supreme Leader of Iran is one who ultimately is responsible for the hostile conduct of the regime.

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