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
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