Trump vows to trigger ‘snapback’ of Iran sanctions at U.N.

August 15, 2020

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would move next week to trigger a “snapback” of sanctions on Iran at the United Nations.

“We’ll be doing a snapback,” Trump told reporters one day after the U.N. Security Council rejected a U.S. bid to extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran. “You’ll be watching it next week.”

The United States has threatened to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions on Iran using a provision in a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, known as snapback, even though Trump abandoned the accord in 2018. Diplomats have said the United States would face a tough, messy battle in any such move.

(Reporting by Raphael Satter; Editing by Will Dunham)