Pompeo Says US Will Invoke Iranian Snapback Sanctions 'Soon'

The U.S. will soon trigger snapback sanctions under the Iran nuclear deal after the United Nations Security Council rejected the U.S.’s attempt to extend the Iranian arms embargo (see 2008170017), Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. Speaking during an Aug. 19 press conference, Pompeo said the U.S. expects the sanctions to be enforced even as other U.N. members question whether the U.S. has the authority to invoke the sanctions (see 2007010030 and 2006090047). “The president has made clear we’re going to do that soon, and we will,” Pompeo said. “We have every expectation that they’ll be enforced just like every other U.N. Security Council resolution that is in place.”