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It also targeted six individuals and three entities linked to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran under a separate executive order. The United States Department of Commerce has listed five individuals associated with the organization on its “Entity List”, which places restrictions on them in relation to exports.
The State Department said the Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on three people and four entities associated with the Iranian organization involved in the production of liquid ballistic missile fuel.
The motivation behind this US action is the imminent end of the UN arms embargo on Iran and the desire to warn foreign actors that if they buy or sell weapons to Iran, they will face US sanctions.
And American entities are already banned from that trade. Under Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with six major countries, namely Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States, the United Nations ban on conventional weapons will end on October 18, shortly before Thursday’s US presidential election. The third of November.
Pompeo announced late Saturday Sunday the reinstatement of “all United Nations sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which were previously lifted.” However, all the great powers, including Washington’s European allies, reject this measure and consider that there are no legal effects of the maneuver carried out by the United States.
Washington’s decision to unilaterally reimpose previous UN sanctions on Iran sparked disagreements between the United States and European countries, especially signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal.
The majority of the member states of the UN Security Council, led by France and Germany, rejected the US decision.
On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron told the United Nations that France, Germany and Britain will not “give up” their refusal to support the reinstatement of UN sanctions against Iran after the United States took the initiative to do so. .
In a recorded speech to the General Assembly, the French president said that “France, together with its partners Germany and Great Britain, will continue to demand the full implementation of the 2015 Vienna Agreement” on Iran’s nuclear program and “will not accept the violations. committed by Iran. “
However, he corrected, “However, we are not going to compromise the activation of a mechanism that the United States is not in a position to implement on its own after exiting the agreement”, because that “would damage the unity of the Security Council and the integrity. of their decisions, with the risk of escalating tensions in the region. “
Macron noted that the “maximum pressure strategy” adopted by US President Donald Trump after he decided to withdraw from the agreement in 2018, “has so far not led to an end to Iran’s destabilizing activities, nor to an guarantee that you will not be able to acquire a nuclear weapon. “
He stressed: “The need to build a useful framework, that is, the ability to complete the 2015 agreement, first in time to ensure that Iran will never get nuclear weapons for a long time, but also with the assurance that we will respond to ballistic activity. Tehran and also what it is doing to destabilize the region. “
