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US Triggers Return of Iran Sanctions at UN

Margaret Besheer

   NEW YORK - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo formally notified the United
   Nations on Thursday that the United States is initiating a "snapback"
   of all international sanctions on Iran dating back to 2006.

   "Our message is very, very simple," Pompeo told reporters at the U.N.
   "The United States will never allow the world's largest state sponsor
   of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes, tanks and missiles and
   other kinds of conventional weapons. These U.N. sanctions will continue
   the arms embargo."

   He said President Donald Trump and his administration had "discarded
   the fiction" that Iran merely seeks a peaceful nuclear program.

   "We will never allow the Islamic Republic of Iran to have a nuclear
   weapon," he said.

   Pompeo spoke to reporters after presenting a two-page letter to the
   Security Council president that said after "substantial efforts" by
   several members to remedy Iran's "significant non-performance" of
   obligations in the deal, the U.S. was seeking reimposition of
   sanctions.

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