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WASHINGTON — Poised to put the screws to Iran, President Obama moved Friday to slap harsh sanctions on nations that keep buying the rogue regime’s oil — even if they are U.S. allies.

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Public advocate Bill de Blasio is launching a new watch-list on Thursday, but this time he’s taken a foreign-policy focus, the Daily News has learned.

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President Barack Obama is warning North Korea and Iran that their options are few and their friends fewer as those nations refuse to back down from actions the world sees as menacing.

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Oil prices on Friday briefly spiked to the highest level in three weeks following a report that Iranian oil exports dropped significantly this month.

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Iran was largely cut off from global commerce on Thursday, when the company that handles financial transactions said it was severing ties with many Iranian banks — part of an international effort to discourage Tehran from developing nuclear weapons.

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In an extraordinary interview Sunday, the former head of Israel’s renowned Mossad secret service trashed his country’s plans to attack Iran’s nukes. Meir Dagan told CBS’ “60 Minutes” that a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities could wait as many as three years.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces significant pressure at home to coordinate with the United States in any attack against Iran’s nuclear program, despite his public insistence on Israel’s right to act alone.

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