Pence urges Europeans to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal, warns of more sanctions [View all]

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Source: Washington Post

By Carol Morello and Anne Gearan February 14 at 6:29 AM

WARSAW — Vice President Pence on Thursday launched a combative broadside against some of America’s closest allies, calling on European countries to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran and accusing them of attempting to break U.S. sanctions against “that vile regime” in Tehran.

Officials from Britain, France and Germany — all countries that negotiated and signed the 2015 landmark agreement that President Trump withdrew from last year — were in the audience as Pence accused them of essentially joining sides with America’s enemy.

Pence threatened to impose more U.S. sanctions against Iran and praised countries that are moving to reduce their oil imports from the country “to zero.”

“But sadly, some of our leading European partners have not been nearly as cooperative,” Pence said in Warsaw at a Middle East conference conceived by the Trump administration as a way to pressure Iran.

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