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President Donald Trump directly blamed Iran for the attacks on a pair of Japanese-owned oil tankers, while insisting his administration is being "very tough" with Iran compared to former President Barack Obama, who made a deal that was "an outrage."
"You saw the boat," Trump told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "One [of the] mines didn't explode, and it has Iran written all over it. They successfully took the mine off the boat, and that was exposed. They didn't want the evidence left behind ... It was them that did...