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Pompeo Urges Accountability for Iran via Arms Embargo

Margaret Besheer

   NEW YORK - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the U.N. Security
   Council on Tuesday to "hold Iran accountable" and extend an arms
   embargo due to expire in October.

   "Renewing the embargo will exert more pressure on Tehran to start to
   behave like a normal nation," Pompeo told a virtual meeting of the
   council that is held twice a year to review implementation of the 2015
   Iran nuclear deal. "The world needs this to happen. The long-suffering
   Iranian people need it to happen."

   Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was due to address the council
   later in the meeting.

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