Reporting US and Iraq officials, the WSJ confirms that this news about sanctions waiver came as Washington and Baghdad have been working to de-escalate the tension between one another, after last month’s crisis relating to the US assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the IRGC general from Iran.

The WSJ reported that there were differences among officials in Trump’s administration regarding the waiver.

“We want to maintain maximum pressure on Iran,” the WSJ reported a US official as stating. “But it should not be at the expense of the economic stability of its neighbors,” he added.

Washington Post and Middle East Monitor have contributed to the story.

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