(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)The Trump administration said Thursday that it plans additional sanctions on Iran that are separate from those covered under the international nuclear deal with Iran, an indication that President Trump is unlikely to break the 2015 deal now. If those sanctions are reimposed, the United States would violate the deal brokered by his predecessor that lifted sanctions in exchange for a rollback of Iran's nuclear development program. “I am expecting new sanctions on Iran,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters Thursday. “We have as many sanctions on Iran today as we have on any other country in the process. European powers that co-signed the deal say Iran has complied with its terms and deserves the sanctions relief it was promised.

Source: Washington Post January 11, 2018 23:12 UTC