Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks after an assembly with members of the UN Security Council on August 20, 2020.
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After European members of the UN Security Council said last week that the United States could simply reimpose the sanctions that oppose Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made serious accusations against some of the key allies of states. United.
Pompeo said the United States had the courage and conviction to confront Iran, Europe.
“They chose with the ayatollahs, ” said Pompeo. ” Their movements endanger the Iraqi people, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and, indeed, their own citizens. “
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Pompeo unsuccessfully tried to win the European for the restoration of multilateral sanctions opposed to Iran. Two years ago, Trump’s leadership withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, which had been negotiated through Obama’s leadership.
Wendy Sherman, america’s negotiating leader in 2015, joined Marco Werman of The World to discuss the latest, former undersecretary of state for Political Affairs and lately a professor at Harvard Kennedy School.
Wendy Sherman: When we invalidated Iran’s so-called nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, we sought to ensure that if Iran deeply violated the agreement, that any country that had participated and a player, the agreement could move to the United Nations and cancel multilateral sanctions. The Trump administration abandoned the deal in 2018, saying aloud through the president of the United States that we were no longer committed to the deal. members of the agreement — say the United States is no longer a player because it had defected from the agreement. Therefore, [the United States] has no prestige at the United Nations in this factor and cannot rescind sanctions.
The United States, under Trump’s leadership, again imposed all the sanctions that had been lifted as a result of the agreement, and what they are seeking at the United Nations is for U. N. multilateral sanctions to be re-imposed on Iran, even with the “maximum” Some countries have not fully complied with unilateral U. S. sanctions. This is one of the reasons why the administration needs multilateral sanctions to take effect, because then they would have a greater chance of fully implementing all sanctions, whether unilateral and multilateral, that were lifted as a result of the agreement.
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Well, that’s being very concerned about the “maximum pressure” crusade and other Trump administration movements. Unfortunately, the Iranians have begun to take the wrong steps. Hence they enrich uranium by a higher percentage, a higher concentration. are expanding their enriched uranium reserves. They use and look for more complex centrifuges, the mechanisms that enrich uranium. They’re looking for how they can now restart their plutonium program, some other direction toward the device needed for a nuclear weapon. So they’re worried because it means that the time of the cause, the time it takes to get enough curtains for a nuclear weapon, has decreased considerably.
Editor’s Note: This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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