WASHINGTON: The United States is expecting to trigger snapback - a return of all USsanctions on Iran - soon, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, after the UNSecurity Council rejected Washington's bid to extend an arms embargo on the country.
To trigger a return of the sanctions, the United States will submit a complaint to the 15-member UNSecurity Council about Iran's non-compliance with the nuclear deal, even though Washington quit the accord in 2018.
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Pompeo also pledgedthat the Trump administration will continue to support Iraq as it confronts the threat posed by Daesh andcalled for the Baghdad government to redouble efforts to rein in pro-Iran militias.
Pompeo said the United States was committed to helping Iraq regain and maintain security, despite President Donald Trump’s oft-stated desire to reduce and then eliminate the American troop presence there. Pompeo spoke after talks with senior Iraqi officials and a day before a White House meeting between Trump and Iraq's prime minister, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi,
“There is still work to do," Pompeo told reporters at a State Department news conference with Iraq's foreign minister Fuad Hussein. "Armed groups not under the full control of the prime minister have impeded our progress. Those groups need to be replaced by local police as soon as possible. I assured Dr. Fuad that we could help and we would help.”
