By Stuart Burns
Not content with putting the squeeze on Iran's oil industry, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order last week extending existing sanctions to include Iran's metal industry.
According to the Financial Times, much of Iran's non-oil income comes from metal exports, including $4.2 billion from the sale of steel and a further $917 million from copper and its downstream products.
Much of Iran's metals industry is in the hands of its Revolutionary Guards - not ones to miss a profit, the country has ambitious plans to grow its steel