LONDON • Iran's announcement that it is scaling back commitments to curb its nuclear activities under a 2015 deal was"intentionally ambiguous", US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a visit to London yesterday.
"I'm confident as we watch Iran's activity, that the United Kingdom and our European partners will move forward together to ensure that Iran has no pathway to a nuclear weapons system," he said. "We said so long as that vehicle is being used for that limited purpose, non-sanction purpose, it's of course unobjectionable. When transactions move beyond that... we will evaluate, review it, and if appropriate there will be sanctions against those who were involved in that transaction," he added.The message that we've sent to the Iranians, I hope, puts us in a position where we can deter and the Iranians will think twice about attacking American interests.
The visit came two days after US National Security Adviser John Bolton said the United States was deploying the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and a bomber task force to the region because of a"credible threat by Iranian regime forces". Mr Pompeo said the purpose of the meeting was to also let Iraqi officials know more about"the increased threat stream that we had seen" so they could effectively protect US forces. He said he expressed US support for Iraqi sovereignty, noting:"We don't want anyone interfering in their country, certainly not by attacking another nation inside of Iraq."
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