The Trump administration has ordered an indefinite halt to new sanctions on Iran, raising questions about the future of its "maximum pressure" campaign ahead of nuclear negotiations, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The directive came last week from White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, who instructed the National Security Council, the Treasury Department and the State Department to cease all new actions targeting Tehran. A source close to the White House said Trump's pressure campaign is now "stuck in place."
The order to freeze sanctions, issued without a specified end date, followed the last-minute blocking of routine Treasury Department sanctions. Since then, at least six additional sanctions packages have been delayed, and no new American sanctions against Iran have been announced since May 21.
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