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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pauses while speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020.

Not Giving Up: Pompeo Says US Can Prolong Ban on Arms Sales to Iran Despite Leaving Nuclear Deal

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This is not the first time the secretary of state loosely interprets the provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which was adopted alongside the Iran nuclear deal in 2015. Pompeo has claimed that Iran's satellite launches violate the resolution’s provisions, although it contains no such ban.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has once again claimed in a Twitter exchange with Senator Elizabeth Warren that the US retains the power to extend the ban on conventional arms sales to Iran under UN Security Council Resolution 2231, despite abandoning the Iran nuclear deal, to which it is linked, in 2018.

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