US sanctions threat against Iran may hit SA hard
Mr Johnson spoke to reporters as he and counterparts from Germany and France met with Iranian overseas minister Javad Zarif.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reached out to European signatories of the Iran nuclear deal to seek their continued cooperation in countering Tehran's "malign behavior" following the US withdrawal from the landmark accord.
Part of the flaw with the Iran deal that President Donald Trump rejected was it enticed Europe and the USA into economic relations with Iran that would work against holding the country accountable for violations of the agreement, Bolton said.
"We are on the right path to move forward ..."
European diplomats, speaking on background because they did not have authorization to talk otherwise, said on Tuesday that they felt no great urgency, which was just as well, given the difficulty of the task.
The deal, painstakingly negotiated over more than a decade, lifted punishing economic sanctions on Iran in return for it abandoning its nuclear ambitions.
The accord lifted worldwide sanctions on Iran in 2016 in return for Tehran shutting down its capacity, under strict surveillance by the United Nations nuclear watchdog, to stockpile enriched uranium for a possible atomic bomb. Macron was trying to convince Trump to wait, that the US and Europe could pressure Iran to make another deal around its missile program.
"I want to stress we are under no illusion about the stuff Iran gets up to in the region, in the Middle East".
DONALD TRUMP'S announcement on May 8 that the U.S.is withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the nuclear agreement with Iran is officially called, was not a surprise.
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There was no press conference following the Lavrov-Zarif talks in Moscow. But in an interview aired on the ABC programme This Week, Bolton said, "That's not the policy of the administration".
"âWe expect it has worth even when America has determined to stroll away, so weâll be taking a look at a package deal of measures that we might be able to devise as Europeans, to encourage the Iranians to remain within the deal".
Washington has long complained that the nuclear deal does nothing to stop Iran's ballistic missile program or its interference in conflicts across the Middle East from Syria to Yemen.
European diplomats acknowledged that the EU support, however honest, risked looking hollow after Trump last week reimposed an array of wide sanctions on the Islamic Republic that will hit European companies investing in Iran.
JAKE TAPPER: Can you explain to me how you're going to be able to get Iran to agree to a new tougher deal without the participation in sanctions of China and Russian Federation and Europe? "The EU would have to green light retaliation against USA companies for any sanctions imposed against European ones".
The European Commission has been examining measures to counter the introduction of any US sanctions that could harm European businesses.
"That's what we are going to do and I will be hard at it with the Europeans in the next several days", said the top USA diplomat. "We will try to uphold our side of the bargain". The commission is expected to unveil them to European Union leaders at a summit in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Wednesday.
They could consider retaliatory sanctions using the EU's so-called blocking statute that bans any European Union company from complying with US sanctions and does not recognise any court rulings that enforce American penalties.
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