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u.s. news Dialuna 5 OctOber 2020

Ex-Bridgeport officials expected to plead guilty to fraud

(AP) — The former police the process that led to the city the police chief exam and
chief of Connecticut's larg- hiring Perez as chief in 2018. other materials to Perez and
est city and another former Both were charged with wire tailored the scoring criteria
official are expected to plead fraud, conspiracy to commit for that exam in Perez's favor.
guilty Monday in their fed- wire fraud and with making Perez, investigators said, also
eral fraud case. false statements to investiga- had two police officers se-
A change of plea hearing is tors. cretly take the written por-
scheduled for former Bridge- Dunn will plead guilty to tion of the exam for him.
port Police Chief Armando one count of conspiracy and Email and telephone messag-
Perez and former acting Per- one count of making a false es seeking comment were left
sonnel Director David Dunn. statement, his attorney, Fred Saturday for Perez's attorney.
Perez and Dunn resigned last Paoletti, said in an email. Public access to the change of
month after being arrested According to the criminal plea hearing will be available
on federal fraud charges. complaint, Dunn gave an- via video, according to the
They are accused of rigging swers to the oral portion of U.S. District Court docket.

Alone among nations, US moves to restore UN Iran sanctions

(AP) — The United States pected in the coming days are if you violate the U.N. in the past, we will stand that the nuclear pact should
slapped additional sanctions and weeks. arms embargo on Iran you alone to protect peace and be preserved. At a conference
on Iran on Monday after "The United States has now risk sanctions," he said. security at all times. We don't of the International Atomic
the Trump administration's restored U.N. sanctions on However, nearly all of the need a cheering section to Energy Agency in Vienna,
disputed unilateral weekend Iran," Trump said in a state- targets identified on Mon- validate our moral compass." Salehi said the Joint Com-
declaration that all United ment issued shortly after he day — including the Iranian In a letter to the president of prehensive Plan of Action, or
Nations penalties eased un- signed an executive order defense ministry, its procure- the Security Council, Craft JCPOA, has been "caught in
der the 2015 nuclear deal had spelling out how the U.S. ment arm, Iran's atomic en- said the U.S. move meant a quasi-stalemate situation"
been restored. will enforce the "snapback" ergy agency, several Iranian that outright bans on Iranian since Trump pulled out.
The announcement came in of the sanctions. "My actions scientists and Venezuelan uranium enrichment, re- While insisting it is not pur-
defiance of nearly all U.N. today send a clear message to leader Nicolas Maduro — processing and heavy water- suing a nuclear weapon, Iran
members, including U.S. al- the Iranian regime and those were already subject to U.S. related programs are once has been steadily breaking re-
lies in Europe, who have re- in the international commu- sanctions that the adminis- again in place as is a bar on strictions outlined in the deal
jected U..S. legal standing nity who refuse to stand up tration had re-imposed after any activity involving nuclear on the amount of uranium it
to impose the international to Iran." Trump withdrew from the capable ballistic missiles. She can enrich, the purity it can
sanctions. It set the stage for The sanctions include freezes nuclear deal in 2018. said the U.S. expected U.N. enrich it to, and other limita-
an ugly showdown at the an- on any assets those targeted Trump's executive order member states to also observe tions. At the same time, Iran
nual U.N. General Assem- may have in U.S. jurisdisc- mainly affects Iranian and and enforce asset freezes and has far less enriched uranium
bly this week and also came tions, bar Americans from foreign entities involved in travel bans on dozens of Ira- and lower-purity uranium
as President Donald Trump doing business with them conventional weapons and nian officials that had been than it had before signing the
seeks to portray himself as and, perhaps most impor- ballistic missile activity. A eased as a result of the nucle- deal, and it has continued to
a champion for Middle East tantly, open up foreign gov- U.N. arms embargo on Iran ar deal. allow international inspectors
stability ahead of November's ernments. companies and is to expire in October under The administration declared into its nuclear facilities.
presidential election. individuals to U.S. penalties the terms of the nuclear deal, on Saturday that all U.N. Trump's opponent in No-
In addition to his actions if they engage in transactions but Pompeo and others insist sanctions against Iran had vember, former Vice Presi-
against Iran, Trump just last with them. the snapback has rescinded been restored because Tehran dent Joe Biden, has signaled
week witnessed the signing Speaking to reporters with its termination. is violating parts of the nucle- that he would rejoin the deal
of agreements normalizing fellow Cabinet secretaries at Accompanied by Treasury ar deal in which it agreed to if he's elected but also said he
relations between Israel and the State Department, Sec- Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, curb its nuclear program in wants to negotiate tougher
the United Arab Emirates retary of State Mike Pompeo Defense Secretary Mark Es- exchange for billions of dol- terms and expand the agree-
and Bahrain, both of which announced the administra- per, Commerce Secretary lars in sanctions relief. ment's mandate to include
reflect increased regional tion was hitting more than Wilbur Ross, Ambassador But few U.N. member states non-nuclear matters.
concerns about Iran. Similar two dozen Iranian individu- to the United Nations Kelly believe the U.S. has the legal Iran's Foreign Minister Mo-
U.S.-brokered deals between als and institutions with pen- Craft and national secu- standing to restore the sanc- hammed Javad Zarif said
Israel and Arab states are ex- alties. "No matter who you rity adviser Robert O'Brien, tions because Trump with- Monday that Tehran was
Pompeo said the U.S. was drew from the nuclear deal open to talks in general but
not acting alone but on be- in 2018. The U.S. argues it only if it was compensated
half of the rest of the world retains the right to do so as for sanctions that have al-
which is refusing to confront an original participant in the ready been reimposed by the
the Iranian threat. deal and a member of the U.S. He also said he would
"The country that's isolated council. not renegotiate the terms
today is not the United States The remaining world powers of the 2015 deal, which was
but rather Iran," Pompeo said. in the deal — Britain, China, a signature foreign policy
"By these actions we have France, Germany and Rus- achievement of former Presi-
made very clear that every sia — have been struggling dent Barack Obama.
member state in the United to offset the sanctions that "It is up to the United States
Nations has a responsibility the U.S. re-imposed on Iran to prove to the rest of the
to enforce these sanctions." after the Trump administra- JCPOA participants, particu-
Craft, the U.N. ambassador tion left the pact, which the larly to Iran, that it's going to
who has seen her counter- president said was one-sided act responsibly, that it's not
parts one-by-one adamantly in favor of Tehran and fre- going to make demands out-
reject the administration's quently called the worst deal side the scope of the JCPOA,
position, said the U.S. would ever negotiated. and it's going to basically
not back down in the face of Ali Akbar Salehi, the head stop causing damage to Iran,"
global opposition. of Iran's nuclear agency, said Zarif said at an online event
"What makes America unique earlier Monday there is still hosted by the Council on
is that we stand up for what is a broad agreement among Foreign Relations.
right," she said. "As we have the international community