WASHINGTON — While a top aide complained of “nuclear blackmail,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today that the United States would wait and see what Iran actually does after it notified the remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal that it would temporarily suspend abiding by caps on its stockpile of low enriched uranium and heavy water. Iran could take other measures in two months’ time if the other parties do not find a way for it to get economic benefits to stay in the deal, Iran said, but would return to those limits if they did.
“We will never be held hostage to the Iran regime’s nuclear blackmail,” Brian Hook, the US special representative for Iran, told journalists on a call today marking the one-year anniversary of the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
