New York - Saba:
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing sources, that the White House has ordered a halt to imposing new sanctions on Iran.
According to these sources, White House spokeswoman Carolyn Levitt sent a directive last week to the State Department, the Treasury Department, and the National Security Council, urging them to "cease all activities aimed at imposing new sanctions on Iran."
The newspaper noted that as a result, US President Donald Trump's campaign of "maximum pressure" on Iran has effectively ceased.
For her part, Levitt's deputy, Anna Kelly, did not directly refute this information in her comment on the article, only stating that "any new decisions on the sanctions issue will be announced either by the White House or the relevant departments."
The newspaper notes that the last time Washington imposed new restrictions on Tehran was on May 21, and since then, the US Treasury has postponed announcing new sanctions at least twice.
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