Iran expressed its happiness on the United States being rejected by the United Security Council vote for continuing with its sanction on Iran. The US tried to extend an arms embargo on Iran but a common consensus was against this idea.
On August 14, the US
received an overwhelming defeat in a 15-member council at the UN where
Dominican Republic became the only country to have come in support of it while
Russia and China stairway rejected the appeal and eight others abstained their
voting rights. Giving his statement on this incident, Iran’s foreign ministry
spokesman Abbas Mousavi tweeted that this is the first time in 75 years that
the United States has been so isolated. Now President Hassan Rouhani also expressed his pleasure on the country's
coming in support of Iran after the US tried extending the embargo after the
2015 nuclear deal.
The United States had
withdrawn form the accords in 2018 and went ahead with imposing sanction on
Iran unilaterally. Iran retaliated this move by increasing its nuclear activities
over last year. The deal that was stamped in 2015 was called the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, under which all the countries listed on
the documents abide by the call.
Rouhani called out the
Trump government for having asked to extend the embargo saying that this will
be a punishment for those who abided by the deal. "They have not only
pulled out of the JCPOA but also punished whoever has abided by it."
Helga Schmid, who chaired the meeting, assured that the countries were
united to resolve to preserve the nuclear agreement no matter what. He further
said that it is par America’s capacity to launch the process to reimpose
sanctions on Iran using a Security Council word which they have already
abandoned. Following this, Iran allowed the UN to inspect two sites which were
suspected of having nuclear activities in 2000’s.
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