An Iranian woman walks past the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, which bears a mural depicting the Statue of Liberty with a dead face. With just days to go until the U.S. plans to snap more sanctions back into place, questions linger about what the move spells for the world. Aatta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Aatta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images An Iranian woman walks past the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, which bears a mural depicting the Statue of Liberty with a dead face. With just days to go until the U.S. plans to snap more sanctions back into place, questions linger about what the move spells for the world. Aatta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images Roughly two days remain until the full measure of U.S. sanctions snap back into place against Iran. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters Friday that, come 12 a.m. ET Monday, the economic penalties leveled on the Iranian regime will return to levels unseen since the U.S. negotiated the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal. The move is “aimed at depriving the regime of the revenues that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world,” Pompeo said. “Our ultimate aim is to compel Iran to permanently abandon its well-documented outlaw activities and behave as a normal country.” Seen in broad strokes, the announcement Friday comes as no surprise. Since May, when President Trump vowed to unilaterally pull the U.S. out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, his administration has telegraphed its intentions to restore the sanctions that had been lifted as part of the seven-country pact. The administration already leveled one major round of sanctions in August; now, it is restoring the complete set of sanctions — and even adding hundreds of names to the list, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. “The Treasury Department will add more than 700 names to our list of blocked entities,” said Mnuchin, who joined Pompeo on Friday’s conference call with reporters. “This includes hundreds of targets previously granted sanctions relief under under the JCPOA, as well as well as more than 300 new designations. This is substantially more than we ever have previously done.” That said, the Trump administration plans to grant temporary exceptions to eight yet-to-be-named “jurisdictions,” which Pompeo says will get six-month waivers from U.S. penalties while they “wind down” their oil business with Iran. With the snap-back just days away, the Trump administration announcement offers an opportunity to step back, understand the context — and answer a few important questions lingering around the move: What specifically is taking effect Monday?Why is the U.S. offering waivers to certain countries?What’s the Trump administration’s goal?How is Iran reacting?What’s going on with the Iran nuclear deal now? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefs the media las
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