Trump slaps new US sanctions on Iran's metals industry

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered new sanctions on Iran, this time targeting the Islamic Republic's export revenues from its industrial metals sector, and vowed to keep squeezing Tehran unless it"fundamentally alters" its policies.

"Today's action targets Iran's revenue from the export of industrial metals - 10 per cent of its export economy - and puts other nations on notice that allowing Iranian steel and other metals into your ports will no longer be tolerated," Trump said in a statement.

Tehran halting compliance with some elements of the nuclear deal was"nothing less than nuclear blackmail of Europe," Tim Morrison, special assistant to the US president and senior director for weapons of mass destruction, told a conference."Now is the time for the community of nations to strongly condemn Iran’s nuclear misconduct and increase pressure on the regime to comply with US demands," Morrison said, adding that Washington was not 'done' with sanctions on Iran.

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