US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hoped on Friday that Germany would follow London’s example in banning the Hezbollah party. “We’re hoping to get Germany’s help – and we talked about this today – in recognizing Hezbollah as a unified entity and banning it from Germany as our ally, the United Kingdom, did this year,” he said after holding talks with his German counterpart Heiko Maas in Berlin. “We’re grateful for Germany’s decision to ban Mahan Air from landing in the country. It has been a courier for the Iranian regime and its cargo – fighters and weapons – are bound for Middle East battlefields that put Europeans and Americans and others all around the world at risk,” he added. “And with Germany currently holding a seat on the UN Security Council, it’s time to take the next step so that we can stop the Iranian torrent of destruction. In particular, I’d like to highlight Iran’s ongoing ballistic missile activities, which are in defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 2231,” he continued. “Additionally, Iran has also utterly failed to meet its commitments under the Financial Action Task Force action plan that it had agreed to, that Iran had agreed to back in 2016. As part of that plan, Iran committed to ratify both the UN Palermo Convention on Transnational Organized Crime and the UN Terrorism Finance Convention, but, as we might expect from the world’s number one state sponsor of terror, they’ve chosen not to do that yet,” Pompeo noted. “Today I call on Iran to ratify both treaties without delay and to do so without reservation,” he demanded. Britain completely banned Hezbollah earlier this year after previously making a distinction between the Lebanese party’s political and military wings. Explaining its decision, the British government said the organization continued to amass weapons in contravention of UN Security Council resolutions, while its support for the head of the Syrian regime, Bashar Assad, had prolonged the conflict and the "brutal and violent repression of the Syrian people".