WASHINGTON — The United States will exempt eight nations from US secondary sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, the Donald Trump administration said today.
The sanctions, set to resume Nov. 5, are “aimed at depriving the regime of the revenues that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a call with journalists today. “Our ultimate aim is to compel Iran to permanently abandon its well-documented outlaw activities and behave as a normal country.”