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The RSC plan also includes policy recommendations to combat other U.S. adversaries, including Russia and China.

Although the details of the transaction are unknown, a report says it was “the sale was equipment related to blood treatment from a German exporter and had been in the works for several months.”

“Talk about wrong place, wrong time. Rather than standing with the Iranian people during this historic and dark moment, European nations are working overtime to resurrect a deal which is essentially dead,” said Behnam Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Families of terror victims and the Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center are filing a lawsuit in France to confiscate Iranian funds passing through INSTEX, a mechanism established by Germany, Great Britain and France to bypass U.S. sanctions against Iran.

“It is an ill-advised step that will only strengthen Iran, weaken the E.U., and create still more distance between Europe and the United States,” said U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.

“We’ll find them and sanction them, and they won’t be doing any business with the United States,” said U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland.

“As the president has made clear, entities that continue to engage in sanctionable activity involving Iran risk severe consequences,” the U.S. State Department told JNS.