Pompeo sets out demands on Iran after Trump kills N-deal

Bloomberg

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanded Iran halt all uranium enrichment, stop its ballistic-missile programme and give nuclear inspectors access to the entire country, in a speech detailing the US approach now that President Donald Trump has withdrawn from the 2015 nuclear deal.
The demands were among 12 “basic requirements” that the US will seek if Iran wants relief from a punishing sanctions regime Trump plans to reimpose, Pompeo said in a speech on Monday at the Heritage Foundation in Washington that gave European leaders little reason to hope Washington will show flexibility in dealing with their companies that want to continue investing in the Islamic Republic.
Pompeo said Iran will continue to feel the “sting of sanctions” if its doesn’t change the “unacceptable and unproductive path it has chosen.
These will be the strongest sanctions in history by the time we are complete.”
“Anytime sanctions are put in place, countries have to give up economic activity,” Pompeo said, adding that US companies have sacrificed business opportunities.
The administration billed the speech, Pompeo’s first policy address as secretary of state, as an articulation of Trump’s new strategy towards Iran less than a month after he ignored the pleas of US allies and withdrew from the nuclear accord.