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Pompeo: US to return to UN to ensure Iran sanctions enforced

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the international sanctions on Iran will return this weekend, despite opposition from most of the Security Council.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States will return to the United Nations in an effort to reinstate sanctions on Iran next week, despite concerns from UN Security Council members who believe Washington lacks the legal authority to do so. 

"We will return to the United Nations to reimpose sanctions, so that the arms embargo will become permanent next week," Pompeo said at a briefing with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab today. “We’ll do all the things we need to do to ensure that those sanctions are enforced.” 

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