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Clinton said the administration expects to see significant reductions. "We've been aggressively reaching out to and working with countries to assist them in being able to make such significant reductions," she said. Clinton said the administration has had "very intense and very blunt" conversations with India, China and Turkey. "Both on their government side and on their business side, they are taking actions that go further and deeper than perhaps their public statements might lead you to believe and we're going to continue to keep an absolute foot on the pedal in terms of our accelerated aggressive outreach to them. And they, you know, they are looking for ways to make up the lost revenues, the lost crude oil," Clinton said. An outside sanctions expert who has advised the administration said there were plenty of examples of foreign companies engaging in transactions that would be subject to sanctions beginning Wednesday. If the administration takes no public action against those companies now it would be a lost opportunity to show resolve ahead of next week's meeting between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the nonprofit Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "They should do something," Dubowitz said. "There is ample authority and you have a target-rich environment."
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