NBC: Iran sanctions: U.S. set to demand 'snapback' of measures at U.N. Security Council
None of the other co-signatories of the deal believe the U.S. has the power to reimpose Iran sanctions because it withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to demand Thursday that crippling international sanctions are reinstated against Iran.
President Donald Trump has directed Pompeo to travel to the United Nations Security Council in New York to enforce what's known as the "snapback," a mechanism built into the Iran nuclear deal signed under President Barack Obama in 2015.
This would reinstate all United Nations sanctions on Iran that were lifted in exchange for curbs on the country's nuclear program. The problem for Trump is that none of the other co-signatories — China, Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany and France — believe the president has the power to do this because he withdrew from the deal in 2018.
"The United States intends to restore virtually all of the previously suspended United Nations sanctions on Iran," President Donald Trump said Wednesday. "It's a snapback."
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