US President Donald Trump will avoid imposing new nuclear sanctions on Iran for the last time and will require a follow-up agreement with European partners as well as an amendment to the US law attached to the nuclear deal with Tehran, on Friday.
According to the White House, this will be the last time Trump will waive sanctions as it pursues measures to strengthen the Joint Integrated Action Plan (JCPOA) of 2015.
A senior administration official said that Trump wants the Iran agreement to be strengthened with a 120-day follow-up agreement or the United States will unilaterally withdraw from the international pact.
Trump had tried privately to have to relinquish sanctions again in a country he sees as a growing threat in the Middle East. The agreement was reached during the presidency of former Democrat President Barack Obama.
The decision should be announced in a statement issued by the White House the day after Trump engages in lengthy discussions with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, national security adviser H. R. McMaster, and other authorities over the agreement.
Trump argued backstage that the nuclear deal makes the United States look weak, a top US official said. The argument for keeping up, said the source, was to allow time to toughen the terms of the agreements.
The 2015 agreement between the United States and Iran has also been signed by China, France, Russia, Britain, Germany and the European Union, and the agreement to halt Iran's nuclear program has effectively terminated the agreement limiting Iran's nuclear program. these countries would have been unlikely to join the United States in returning to sanctions.
Humanitarian sanctions
While Trump approved an exemption from sanctions, the Treasury Department has decided to impose new targeted sanctions against 14 Iranian entities and individuals for human rights abuses and support for Tehran's weapons programs. The list includes the head of the judiciary in Iran, Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani.
The folder said in a statement that Larijani, an intimate ally of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is "responsible for ordering, controlling or otherwise directing, committing serious human rights abuses against people in Iran or Iranian citizens or residents" .
In addition, a Chinese national has been sanctioned for acting on behalf of Wuhan Sanjiang Import and Export Co LTD, a company that is already under sanctions for doing business with an Iranian company "owned or controlled" by the military.
Other sanctioned entities included another Chinese company, Bochuang Ceramic Corp and an Iranian firm that sought to provide a chemical compound used to transmit electrical signals.
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