Economics
Trump Team Divided Over Iran Oil Waivers as Next Deadline Nears
- Pompeo, Bolton staffs feud over how fast to ban oil sales
- Kudlow argued that ending waivers won’t affect oil prices
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President Donald Trump’s national security team is deeply divided over whether to let a small group of countries keep buying Iranian oil after a U.S. deadline on sanctions waivers expires in May. Now that fight is getting ugly.
The division -- primarily between John Bolton’s National Security Council and Michael Pompeo’s State Department -- has led to rising frustration and flared tempers. It’s exposing fault lines over how the president’s most senior advisers approach the Iran issue, according to four people familiar with the debate who asked not to be identified discussing the internal deliberations.