UN Needs to Renew Iran Arms Embargo, House Members Say in Letter
Four House members are asking for support for a letter to urge Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to push the United Nations to renew its arms embargo against Iran. The embargo, which expires in October, is an “important means to…
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restrain the sale of weapons” to Iran, Reps. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., Michael McCaul, R-Texas, Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., said in the letter. The lawmakers also said that the expiration of the embargo may lead more states to trade weapons with Iran and may leave certain states feeling as though they do not have “sufficient legal authority to stop transfers once the U.N. embargo expires.”