Donald Trump is prepared to impose sanctions on European companies that do business in Iran following his withdrawal of the US from the international nuclear deal, his administration reiterated on Sunday. Mike Pompeo, Trump’s secretary of state, said on Sunday wealth created in Iran under the terms of the nuclear deal “drove Iranian malign activity” in the region. Trump’s decision to scrap the nuclear deal was sharply criticised by European leaders, who have pledged to uphold their side of the agreement. The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has embarked on a tour of the deal’s other member states. “Remember how badly Iran was behaving with the Iran Deal in place,” he wrote.

Source: The Guardian May 13, 2018 16:21 UTC