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Blinken: Hundreds of Sanctions on Iran Will Remain in Place
(Jerusalem Post) Omri Nahmias - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a congressional committee on Tuesday that if an agreement is reached to renew the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, "our responsibility would be to lift sanctions inconsistent with the JCPOA, but to resolutely maintain sanctions that are consistent with it, to deal with the multiplicity of Iran's malign actions in a whole series of areas. I would anticipate that even in the event of a return to compliance with the JCPOA, hundreds of sanctions will remain in place...until Iran's behavior changes." Blinken added: "We strongly support the Abraham Accords. This is an important initiative....We're working closely with the countries that have already signed on to the normalization process to try to see what we can do to help advance that, to strengthen it, to support it. Second, we're engaged with other countries that might in the future choose to sign on, to encourage them to do the same thing."