Following its exit from the Iran nuclear deal, the US is willing to negotiate with European allies on a new agreement, but unwilling to waive sanctions set for re-imposition later this year, key Trump administration officials told Congress this week. “We will certainly continue to work with our European” partners, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday. “We’re committed to developing a diplomatic solution that gets there.” But sanctions relief will not be part of that effort, at least partly due to reluctance among European leaders to take any steps to penalize Iran, such as the imposition of new sanctions in response to missile testing. “Their actual willingness to do that I think we can all agree it didn’t happen,” Pompeo said. On Tuesday, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin told a Senate appropriations committee that European and Asian allies would be […]