Deadline over

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo predicted yesterday that the remaining sanctions against Iran that resume Monday will change the Tehran government’s behavior in the region.

Speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” Pompeo said the sanctions — the last ones to snap back after the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal — aim to get Tehran to stop supporting militants in the Middle East, stop testing missiles and treat its own citizens with more respect. And he defended President Trump’s tweet Friday featuring a“Game of Thrones”- an inspired poster that warned: “Sanctions Are Coming.”

Pompeo said that Trump was “putting the world on notice that the terror regime which threatens Israel through Iranian funding of Lebanese Hizbollah, that the terror regime that attempted to conduct an assassination in Denmark over that past few weeks, that the terror regime that continues to fund Houthis launching missiles into Riyadh and into Dubai, that’s going to stop.

That behavior must change, and sanctions of the United States will be reimposed at midnight tonight.”