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Sunday, August 23, 2020

Pompeo Initiates 30-Day Iran Sanctions Snapback; Says Europeans ‘Chose to Side With the Ayatollahs’

By Patrick Goodenough | August 21, 2020

As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday kick-started the process to restore almost all sanctions on Iran in one month’s time, he had blunt words for European allies who are rejecting the right of the U.S. to take the step, accusing them of choosing to “side with the ayatollahs.”

Pompeo was speaking in New York, after lodging with the U.N. a 30-day notice for U.N. sanctions against the Iranian regime, lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal, to “snap back.”  The U.S. took the step after a failed attempt last week to extend the embargo on the sale of conventional arms to Iran, due to expire on October 18...........To Read More....

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