Iran is under constant and growing US sanctions, but it could always be under even more sanctions than that. This is the challenge that keeps Secretary of State Mike Pompeo going, and he sees the P5+1 nuclear deal that the US exited in 2018 as the key.
Pompeo is trying to argue that the US remains a party to the nuclear deal, despite dishonoring it repeatedly before withdrawing from it. As a “party” the US could then use it to try to force snapback sanctions on Iran in the name of the treaty.
Some Iran hawks opposed leaving the deal specifically because it would cost the US this ability to abuse the language of the pact. Pompeo seems to believe he can have things both ways, though Iranian FM Javad Zarif says he is “dreaming.”
On top of this effort, the US is also moving to try to make UN arms embargos against Iran, which expire in October, open-ended. The expiration was part of the P5+1 deal, and now the US wants these sanctions too to remain intact.
The embargo probably won’t be extended, however, as Russia is believed to be planning to try to sell conventional defensive arms to Iran once the embargo ends, and probably won’t endorse a US extension whose only real practical purpose is to stop those sales.
We are unique in that we can eat our cake and have it too. That’s exceptionalism for you.
Pompy reading from script dictated to him by the virolent “think” tanks (sic).
“Think tanks”…… more Like Netanyahu.
Agree!
I just would add that there really is no difference between zionist factions of niten yaa hoo, israel warmongering and the war mongering from the tanks, and the trump admin which of is all zionist dominated.
Fat-face Pompass is as dumb as a rock, Taras, to be reading from a script dictated to him by Trotskyists. Iran hasn’t attacked its neighbors in over 500 years .. It nowadays needs arms for self-defense.
The treaty specifically says if you do not follow the treaty, you have broken it! a trait the US has done with treaties ever since the republic was formed. America reneged on its treaty requirements, Iran didn’t, and the US thinks IT is in compliance
we need to ratchet up the sanctions on this despicable iranian territory and force disease and pestilence upon them just for the fun of it.