US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif are scheduled to address a UN Security Council meeting on the implementation of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal — the accord that the Trump administration pulled out of more than two years ago.
The long-scheduled open meeting of the UN’s most powerful body comes a day after Iran issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the US drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad earlier this year. Trump faces no danger of arrest and Interpol later said it would not consider Iran’s request. However, the charges underscore the heightened tensions between Iran and the United States since Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the nuclear deal with world powers in 2018 and re-imposed crippling US sanctions on Tehran.