US to Trigger Snapback Sanctions Against Iran

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pose for a picture ahead of a meeting at the New York UN Headquarters in New York City, N.Y., on March 6, 2020. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

The United States will request a return or “snapback” of all U.N. sanctions on Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, after the U.N. Security Council rejected Washington’s bid to extend an arms embargo on the regime.

The U.S. sanction request “will be a fully valid, enforceable U.N. Security Council resolution,” Pompeo said at a press conference on Wednesday in Washington. “We have every expectation that they’ll be enforced just like every other U.N. Security Council resolution that is in place.”