President Trump Is Putting Huge Pressure on Europe to Reinstate Sanctions on Iran. He’s in for a Tou

“The stakes are huge,” said Richard Goldberg, who was lead Senate Republican negotiator for several rounds of Congressionally enacted sanctions that helped pressure Iran into curbing their nuclear program. “There’s going to be enormous amount of pressure brought to bear on U.S. allies to comply.” 

“If any major corporation, any country, is openly in violation of U.S. sanctions — and in particular if they are giving the Iranian regime access to hard cash — that would greatly undermine the Administration’s strategy and would likely give the Iranians a lifeline to survive to the next presidential election,” says Goldberg, who is now senior advisor for the Foundation of Defense for Democracies, a right-leaning Washington think tank.

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