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Pompeo Expects 'Every Nation' to Comply With 'Snapback' Sanctions on Iran

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   U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that he expected
   every nation to comply with a U.N. Security Council resolution
   regarding a "snapback" of sanctions on Iran.

   "The United States is intent on enforcing all the U.N. Security Council
   resolutions, and come Monday, there will be a new series of U.N.
   Security Council resolutions to be in force, and we intend to ask every
   country to stand behind them," he said during a joint press conference
   with Suriname President Chandrikapersad "Chan" Santokhi in Paramaribo.

   He said the U.S. expected every nation to behave in a way consistent
   with what the United Nations mandates, adding that it was "simple" and
   "straightforward what our expectations are."

   The United States has vowed to assert the "snapback" of all prior
   international sanctions on Iran, effective at 8 p.m. EDT Saturday, with
   more announcements to be made this weekend and next week as to exactly
   how Washington is planning to enforce the "returned U.N. sanctions."

   "We will return to the United Nations to reimpose sanctions so that the
   arms embargo will become permanent next week," Pompeo said Wednesday
   during a joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary Dominic
   Raab.

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