US will enforce sanctions against Iran, Pompeo says
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that the
US will fully enforce sanctions against Iran, scheduled to be put back in place
Monday, The Washington Post reported.
“The United States is going to enforce these
sanctions,” Pompeo told reporters returning with him from a summit in Southeast
Asia. Asked about Tehran’s prospects for evading the prohibitions on financial
transactions and eventually oil purchases from Iran, he said Iran will not
succeed.
“It’s an important part of our efforts to push back
against Iranian malign activity,” he said of the sanctions.
As part of a historic 2015 agreement between Iran
and six world powers, including the United States, US and international
sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear activity were suspended once Tehran
accepted technical limits on its program. By almost all accounts, the wide
spectrum of US and multilateral sanctions were responsible for getting Iran to
the negotiating table.
