[UPDATE-DAY #59] Iran Has Not Yet Pledged to Abandon Nuclear Arms, Trump Says

New Zealand imposes travel bans on 40 Iranian officials over protest crackdown New Zealand imposed further sanctions on Iran on Wednesday, placing travel bans on 40 Iranian officials and others accused of involvement in suppression of protests, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said. The bans target Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib and Prosecutor-General Mohammad Movahedi-Azad, as well as members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps among others. “It has been horrifying to witness the brutal killing of thousands of protestors in Iran,” Peters said, adding that Iranians’ rights to peaceful protest and freedom of expression had been “ruthlessly…