John Bolton
The Trump administration wants sanctions on Iran's crude exports to strain Tehran, but it "doesn't want to harm friends and allies," U.S. national security adviser John Bolton, who recently returned from the Caucasus, said in Washington on Wednesday, TURAN's U.S, correspondent reports.
"Our goal is maximum pressure and it will be to drive Iranian oil exports to zero... We understand, obviously, a number of countries immediately surrounding Iran, some of which I visited last week, some of which are purchasing oil, may not be able to go all the way to zero immediately," Bolton said in a talk at the Hamilton Society, a nonpartisan group that encourages debate on foreign policy.
"We want to achieve maximum pressure but don't want to harm friends and allies, either, and we are working our way through that. I think it is important that we not relax in the effort", he noted.
Washington is preparing to impose the new sanctions on Iran's oil industry next week. But the White House is also considering offering waivers to some allies on a case-by-case basis.
Yet, for Bolton, consequences for Iran "can already be seen," including the collapse of its currency rial.
A.Raufoglu
Washington, D.C.
Politics
-
Under the agreement between Azerbaijan and the European Union on the readmission of persons residing without permission, 37 Azerbaijani citizens were returned from Germany on November 26.
-
Six people died on the evening of November 27 as a result of a collision between two cars on a section of the Baku-Gazakh highway passing through the Tovuz region.
-
Official Baku has condemned the visit of Polish President Andrzej Duda to the Azerbaijan-Armenia border during his official visit to Armenia. "The visit of Polish President Andrzej Duda to the to Armenia-Azerbaijan border area in the company of members of the EU Mission in Armenia (EUMA), unfortunately, is another demonstration of anti-Azerbaijani policy of different EU member countries and European institutions. We deeply regret that President of the country which is officially a “strategic partner” of Azerbaijan has participated in the unacceptable diplomatic “binocular show” leading to the aggravation of relations between Azerbaijan and Poland,”" reads the statement on the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ account on X (formerly Twitter).
-
According to the “Times of India”, the first batch of “Pinaka” missile systems has been delivered to Armenia.
Leave a review