sanctions are coming. a nod to game of thrones. joining me live from the state department, secretary of state mike pompeo. welcome back to "fox news sunday". >> great to be with you. >>chris: your reimposed in all u.s. sanctions on iran but your giving exemptions to aid countries to allow them to keep buying oil from tehran. question, why? >> the sanctions that will be imposed tomorrow at the toughest sanctions ever put in place on the islamic republic of iran. they are aimed at a single purpose. denying their capacity to do things like this past week. an assassination attempt in the heart of europe. we have reduced crude oil exports by 1 million barrels per day. that number will fall farther. there's a handful of places where countries that have already made significant reductions in their crude oil exports need more time to get to zero. and we will provide that to them. >>chris: is it true your giving exemptions to two of iran's biggest customers, namely india and china. do you have...

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