MESOPOTAMIA NEWS Today’s Intel Brief: Today’s Intel Brief: Allies Resist U.S. Pressure on Iran (CIPHER BRIEF) 5 Oct 2018

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on U.S. television during the late September 2018 meetings at the U.N. General Assembly that Iran will, for now, remain in the 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA)…  •The United States is alienating its European allies by insisting that they comply with U.S. sanctions against Iran. 

  • Iran is attracting international support by remaining, at least for now, in the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal.
  • The European Union (EU) countries are establishing a ‘special purpose vehicle’ to circumvent U.S. sanctions, but success of this effort is no fait accompli.
  • The Trump administration’s policy is aimed toward reducing Iran’s oil exports, but China and India continue to resist U.S. pressure to dramatically curtail their respective purchases of Iranian oil.

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