Secretary of State Mike Pompeo indicated that in the course of a virtual ministerial of the Group of Seven (G7) he had “thanked countries for… holding the [Iranian] regime accountable for the malign activity through actions like banning Mahan Air and designating all of Hizbollah and other Iran-backed terror groups as terrorist organisations”. He further affirmed that “our pressure campaign remains designed to induce Iran to act like a normal country. I urged our G7 partners to go further in joining us – and they should especially stand with the U.S. in ensuring that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon”.