The US special representative for Iran, Elliott Abrams, insisted on Thursday that a pressure campaign of sanctions targeting Iran would persist into the administration of Joe Biden, despite the fact that the president-elect has pledged to potentially return to the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
Speaking to The Associated Press, Abrams, who also serves as the US special representative to Venezuela, said sanctions targeting Iran for human rights violations, its ballistic missile program and its regional influence would go on. That, as well as continued scrutiny by United Nations inspectors and American partners in the Mideast, would maintain that pressure, he said.
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