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THE United States slapped sanctions on 18 Iranian individuals and groups yesterday despite saying that Tehran was observing the 2015 nuclear deal.
The targets were sanctioned over nonnuclear missile development and other activities.
On Monday the White House told Congress that Iran was complying with the international agreement under which it had agreed to stop pursuing its nuclear weapons programme. The deal permitted Iran’s development of peaceful nuclear power, paving the way for an extension of sanctions relief on oil exports.
But a White House official said that President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and “the entire administration judge that Iran is unquestionably in default of the spirit” of the agreement.
Speaking earlier on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said: “We receive contradictory signals, so we don’t know which one to interpret in what way.”
But yesterday Iran’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to fast-track drafting a new Bill to confront “adventurist and terrorist” US actions in the region.
