With more than 1,000 sanctions on Iran, Trump adds a few more
LA TimesTreasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the announcement Friday from the White House briefing room. But U.S. officials are signaling “that it’s not going to work like that.” In Washington, the Trump administration said it would temporarily ease travel bans and other restrictions that might impede international assistance to investigate the crash of a Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet Wednesday morning as it took off from Tehran, killing all 176 aboard, shortly after Iran had fired more than a dozen missiles at U.S. forces at bases in Iraq. It’s important that we get to the bottom of it.” The latest U.S. sanctions target Iran’s construction, manufacturing and mining industries, including its largest steel and iron producers, and eight officials, a relatively modest addition to the vast array of U.S. sanctions the Trump administration has imposed under a policy it calls “maximum pressure.” Pompeo announced the penalties with Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin. Mnuchin insisted that “economic sanctions are working.” Without them, he said, Iran would have “tens of billions of dollars” that it could use “for terrorist activities.” Trump told reporters Thursday that sanctions already “were very severe, but now it’s increased substantially.” Richard Nephew, who served as State Department sanctions coordinator in the Obama administration, said sanctions can be a valuable diplomatic tool in limited scenarios or as part of a broader strategy. Pompeo defended the administration’s initial claims that intelligence showed Suleimani was plotting an “imminent” attack on U.S. forces or facilities as legal justification for killing a senior government official outside a war zone.
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