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In 1 Oval Office meeting, Pompeo demurred in a debate over scrapping waivers for allies cooperating on nclr work w/ Iran, vacillating 1/
“in front of Trump, despite privately supporting the policy.” 2/
“Pompeo has time. The state’s filing deadline isn’t until June 2020, two months before the August GOP primary” 3/3
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Laura Rozen
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Scooplet: Understand from non govt contact that Iran FM Zarif is expected to meet with Rand Paul while he is in NY. Iran side not yet responded to my query. US official speaking not for attribution yest. referred to reports of a "supposed meeting." US side also suggested 1/
that Paul is not an official WH envoy.
Non-govt contact suggested Zarif would share with Paul ideas such as those reported by the Guardian and NYT about accelerating ratifiation of additional protocol for US sanctions lifting, etc. 2/2
via @lesleyclark, Rand Paul told Fox today, diplomacy is a good idea, and what kind of behavior US would be looking for for sanctions removal 3/
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Laura Rozen
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Next meeting of the Joint Commission overseeing implementation of #Iran nuclear deal will be held July 25, at the political director level
per official. Told it is still not expected that any member yet plans to trigger the dispute resolution mechanism 2/
#pt see al-monitor.com/pulse/original… 3/
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Laura Rozen
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Trump surrounded by people who don’t want engagement w Iran, and esp. don’t want him to get in a room w the Iranians. 1/
Odds he can conduct secret diplomacy w Iran seem pretty low. 2/
maybe convo on less controversial issue like prisoners conducted by lower profile off’l cld happen w/o getting immediately leaked by US side
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