NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - The US formally notified the United Nations of its demand that the Security Council reinstate international sanctions against Iran in a controversial move known as 'snapback' that US allies have said they oppose.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - The US formally notified the United Nations of its demand that the Security Council reinstate international sanctions against Iran in a controversial move known as"snapback" that US allies have said they oppose.
"Mark it down, Iran will never have a nuclear weapon," Trump said at a White House news conference on Wednesday."We paid a fortune for a failed concept, a failed policy that would have made it impossible to have peace in the Middle East." In a letter on Thursday, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the Security Council and the world community to reject the Trump administration's move, the semi-official Fars News agency reported.Russia's envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzya, said in a tweet that the US has no"legal right or reason to initiate this thing."
The US, argues the opposite: It says the"participant states" were fixed by resolution 2231 and leaving the deal does not change that. "Secretary Pompeo's notification to the Council follows its inexcusable failure last week to extend the arms embargo on the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and anti-Semitism," the department said. It added that the snapback would extend the arms embargo by default.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's government ruled out any talks in response to what it calls"blackmail."
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