The Latest on the U.N. Security Council session on Iran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal (all times local):
11:30 a.m.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is urging the U.N. Security Council to ban any Iranian activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons and he’s accusing Tehran of building “a robust ballistic missile force” that threatens the Mideast and Europe.
Pompeo told the U.N.’s most powerful body Wednesday that Iran has built the largest ballistic missile force in the region and has more than 10 ballistic missile systems in its inventory or in development.
The Security Council banned nuclear-capable Iranian missiles from 2010 to 2015, but after the Iran nuclear deal in 2015, the council adopted a weaker provision that “calls upon” Iran not to undertake such activity.
Pompeo said that regardless of the changed language, the world “must agree to stop it now.”
He also urged the council not to lift an arms embargo on Iran in 2020 and to inspect ships in ports and stop them on the high seas to prevent Iran from circumventing existing arms restrictions.
The Associated Press
