AFPThe US has rejected pleas from the EU to grant exemptions to European firms from the sanctions on Iran that will start to be reinstated next month.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin wrote in a letter that they wanted to exert “unprecedented” pressure on Tehran.
Waivers will only be given on national security or humanitarian grounds.
President Donald Trump ordered that the sanctions be re-imposed in May after abandoning a nuclear deal with Iran.
The UK, France and Germany – which were also parties to the 2015 accord, along with Russia and China -…
