Even the EU is starting to get it!
Iran’s test of a ballistic missile this month alarmed the West and France called it a destabilizing act, but the EU is focused on protecting the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran that U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of in May.
“We would like to see the European Union pass sanctions that would designate the people and the organizations that are facilitating Iran’s missile testing and missile proliferation,” Brian Hook, Washington’s special representative for Iran, told Reuters after meetings with European powers in Brussels.
Such punitive measures usually involve travel bans and asset freezes and seek to choke off funding to such arms programs.
Hook said Iran’s tests violated U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231 that enshrined the nuclear accord and he called on Tehran to stop all its ballistic missile-related activities designed to carry nuclear weapons.
“This is a grave and escalating threat and we need to restore deterrents against Iran’s missile program. Otherwise I think we are aggregating, we are accumulating risk of a regional conflict if we don’t,” Hook said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...-idUSKBN1O32JY
“We would like to see the European Union pass sanctions that would designate the people and the organizations that are facilitating Iran’s missile testing and missile proliferation,” Brian Hook, Washington’s special representative for Iran, told Reuters after meetings with European powers in Brussels.
Such punitive measures usually involve travel bans and asset freezes and seek to choke off funding to such arms programs.
Hook said Iran’s tests violated U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231 that enshrined the nuclear accord and he called on Tehran to stop all its ballistic missile-related activities designed to carry nuclear weapons.
“This is a grave and escalating threat and we need to restore deterrents against Iran’s missile program. Otherwise I think we are aggregating, we are accumulating risk of a regional conflict if we don’t,” Hook said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...-idUSKBN1O32JY
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