United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday urged the United Nations to extend a weapons embargo on Iran that is set to expire in 2020, which will mark five years after the adoption of the Iran Nuclear Deal that was abandoned by the US last year.

Pompeo said that “time is drawing short to continue this activity of restricting Iran’s capacity to foment its terror regime,” and spoke of a countdown-to-terror-clock to track the time until the embargo expires.