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Top US officials will travel to Asia, the Middle East, and South America over the coming weeks to press for "strong" sanctions against Iran, a senior US Treasury official says.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Daniel Glaser, appearing before a key House committee, did not name specific countries but said the effort would be "in the weeks to come."
But US President Barack Obama's administration will "put in the hard work required to expand the scope" of Iran sanctions "by urging those governments in Asia, the Middle East, and South America that have not yet promulgated or implemented a strong set of sanctions authorities to do so," he said.
Glaser told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he and Robert Einhorn, the US State Department's special adviser for non-proliferation and arms control, would be among the "many" officials involved.
The panel was weighing the effectiveness of recent legislation aimed at sharply tightening the economic vice on Iran over what the West charges is a covert nuclear weapons program.
