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Pompeo Slams Kerry: US Studying Possible Iran Sanctions Waivers

Pompeo Slams Kerry: US Studying Possible Iran Sanctions Waivers
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed that Washington is studying issuing possible waivers for countries and businesses that want to continue buying oil from Iran beyond November 4, the White House’s designated deadline for them to halt oil imports from the Islamic Republic or face punishments.

“There are still a number of decisions pending before the November 4th deadline that we gotta make about waivers, potential waivers,” Pompeo told a news conference on Friday.

US President Donald trump announced on May 8 that he was walking away from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCOPA], a historic nuclear agreement reached between Iran and six world powers in 2015 under which Iran agreed to limit parts of its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of all nuclear-related sanctions.

Pompeo said the US was not going to change its position against Tehran in any case once the deadline arrives.

“Come November 4th, there will be a fundamentally different set of rules” for “anyone who deems it necessary to engage in economic activity with the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is a big important day,” Pompeo said.

The US top diplomat claimed that many countries had already started to wrap up all of their trade ties to Iran.

On another level, Pompeo said that “former Secretary of State John Kerry’s meetings with Iranian officials on the scrapped international nuclear deal were unseemly and unprecedented.”

“What Secretary Kerry has done is unseemly and unprecedented,” Pompeo told reporters at the State Department. Pompeo accused Kerry of engaging “with the world’s largest state sponsor of 'terror'" and said the meetings were "inconsistent with the foreign policy of the United Sates."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

 

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