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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday began the process to snapback U. N. sanctions on Iran, promising that America will not appease and taking aim at European allies who he accused of endangering their people. Our message is very, very simple, the United States will never allow the worlds largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes tanks missiles and other kinds of conventional weapons, he said at a press conference outside the U. N. Security Council. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO TRIGGER SNAPBACK OF UN SANCTIONS ON IRAN: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?The U. S. triggered the snapback mechanism nearly a week after an effortby the U. S. to extend a soon-to-expire arms embargo on Iran failed at the U. N. Security Council after allies on the Council abstained. America will not join in this failure of leadership, Pompeo said. America will not appease, America will lead. Pompeo noted that in addition to the embargo, snapback would also reimpose sanctions on ballistic missile testing and ongoing nuclear activity, threats he said had been foolishly downplayed by the authors of the Obama-era deal to limit Irans nuclear program. He also took direct aim at the United Kingdom, Franceand Germany for not supporting the extension, while accusing them of privately telling him they didnt want the embargo lifted. And yet today, in the end, they provided no alternatives, no options. No country but the United States has had the courage and conviction to put forward a resolution, he said. Instead they chose to side with the ayatollahs. Their actions endangered the people of Iraq, of Yemen, of Lebanon, of Syria and indeed their own citizens as well. The U. S. left the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, but officials claim to retain rights as a participant of the accompanying U. N. Security Council Resolution 2231, which allows individual participants to trigger the snapback process if they
