If our international partners believe that the United States has acted prematurely by adding new sanctions now in the absence of a provocation or a violation by Iran, their willingness to enforce the existing sanctions regime or to add to it in the event negotiations fail will wane.
Blinken highlights the risk of losing international support for sanctions if new ones are imposed.
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