Four sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump intends to issue an executive order that would allow US sanctions against anyone violating the conventional arms embargo against Iran.
Sources, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, said the executive order was expected to be issued’ in the coming
days and would allow the president to impose secondary sanctions on the US
market. Will increase Will be out of reach
The White House did not immediately
respond to a request for comment.
The closest reason for the US action is to
lift the US arms embargo on Iran and to warn foreign actors - US companies have
already been barred’ from such trade - that if they buy or sell arms to Iran,
they will be US. Will be subject to sanctions. Will have to face
Under the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran attacked
with six major powers: Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United
States - lifting the traditional UN arms embargo on November 18 and the United
States on November 3. It ended shortly before the election. Is.
The United States, which withdrew from the
nuclear deal in May 2018, says it has reinstated all US sanctions on Iran,
including the "snapback", which will take effect at 8 p.m. 0 GMT on
Saturday night or Sunday
Other parties to the nuclear deal and most
of the US Security Council have said they do not believe the United States has
the right to overturn US sanctions and that the US move has no legal effect at
the United Nations.
"Obviously, no member of the Security
Council has acknowledged the veracity of the US claims," said Alireza Miryousefi,
a spokeswoman for Iran's mission to the United Nations. Will be deleted’ under
the agreed timeline in 2015.
The purpose of Trump's executive order is
to show that the United States will not back down, despite its failure to win
the support of the wider US Security Council for "Snapbacks."
Another source, a European diplomat, said
the new executive order would tarnish Washington's assertion that the president
should impose secondary sanctions on US arms transfers to Iran, along with US
sanctions, or punish the transfer of arms. There is an option. Until then, US
weapons will be’ banned.
Secondary sanctions are where a country
seeks to punish another country for trade by restricting access to its own
market for a third trade, which is a particularly powerful option for the
United States because of the size of its economy. Is the source. Is
Most foreign companies do not want to risk
leaving the US market to trade with smaller countries like Iran.
Dow Jacobson, a sanctions lawyer, said the
new executive order could be more symbolic than practical because many Iranian
institutions and individuals are already subject to secondary sanctions.
"It's basically a pile. It's designed
to send a message on this particular issue ... that the Americans are not happy
that the other side (on the Iran nuclear deal) has agreed to an arms
embargo," Jacobson said. I do not know.
Elliott Abrams, the US special envoy for
Venezuela and Iran, said Wednesday that Washington intends to impose sanctions
on violators of the US arms embargo, although he did not say whether. It will
do so with an executive order.
Also on Wednesday, US Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo called for the resumption of US sanctions, signaling the next US
action, as he called on Iran to suspend foreign trade with Iran two years ago.
The agreement was’ abandoned.
"The United States has imposed
unilateral sanctions since abandoning the nuclear deal," Pompeo said.
"We all need to work to ensure that these restrictions apply." ۔
"Despite what has happened in the
world, we have been very successful," he added. He added that US sanctions
have significantly reduced Iran's financial resources.
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