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UN Envoy Implies US Failure in Anti-Iran Resolution Bid

UN Envoy Implies US Failure in Anti-Iran Resolution Bid
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By Staff, Agencies

Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi implied that the US has failed to garner support for its anti-Iran resolution at the UN Security Council, whose purpose is to extend an arms embargo on Tehran.

Takht Ravanchi made the remarks in a Thursday tweet just a day after the US briefed the UN Security Council on a resolution, which called for a 2015 arms embargo against Iran to be extended.

The US resolution, in which Iran has been blamed for a 2019 attack on Saudi oil facilities, claimed that lifting the arms embargo could have “major implications” for security and stability of the Middle East region, urging the UN body to "prohibit the supply, sale or transfer, direct or indirect ... of weapons and related materials" to Iran.

“Yesterday, US briefed UNSC on the extension of arms embargo on Iran and called for Council's unity,” the Iranian ambassador said in his tweet.

Takht Ravanchi, however, added that in a later report released by the US State Department, the American side made no mention of how members of the Security Council reacted to Washington’s anti-Tehran resolution.

“Perhaps reason was their UNANIMOUS call for full implementation of JCPOA & UNSCR 2231,” he concluded.

The US attempt to extend the arms embargo against Iran was part of Washington’s so-called “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran.

France, the UK and Germany -all signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA]- argued against lifting the arms embargo against Tehran, resonating the US claims.

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