UN Refuses to Reinstate Iran Sanctions... US Ambassador Says Security Council Lacks Courage and Transparency

Former Ambassador Hailey: "The UN is a place where dictators hold out their hands"

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[Asia Economy New York=Correspondent Baek Jong-min] The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has rejected the U.S. demand to restore sanctions on Iran. The conflict between the U.S. and the UN over Iran sanctions is expected to deepen further.

On the 25th (local time), according to the British daily The Guardian, Dian Triansyah Djani, Indonesia's ambassador to the UN and the current UNSC president, stated that the Security Council would not hold discussions on the U.S. demand to restore Iran sanctions.

Ambassador Djani explained, "As most Security Council members have expressed opposition to restoring Iran sanctions, I, as the president, cannot take any further action."

AP News forecasted that since Niger, the next rotating president of the UNSC, has also clearly opposed the U.S. demand, it is unlikely that the Security Council will change its stance in the future.

Earlier, after the U.S. government failed to extend the arms embargo on Iran, it officially demanded the restoration of Iran sanctions, claiming that Iran violated the nuclear agreement (JCPOA - Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).

Among the 15 Security Council members, except for the Dominican Republic, none supported the U.S. demand. China and Russia, which are friendly to Iran, as well as U.S. allies in Europe including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Belgium opposed the restoration of sanctions. Vietnam, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, Indonesia, Estonia, and Tunisia also joined in opposition.

Regarding the Security Council decision, Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, stated, "The Security Council lacks courage and moral clarity," adding, "The U.S. will not stand idly by while the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism freely trades conventional weapons such as tanks and missiles and possesses nuclear weapons."

This issue is expected to further intensify U.S. dissatisfaction with the UN. The U.S. government's dissatisfaction with the UN was clearly expressed a day earlier through Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the UN, who gave a supportive speech for President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention.

Haley, who served as the U.S. ambassador to the UN shortly after the Trump administration took office, also sharply criticized the UN in her supportive speech at the Republican National Convention the day before, saying, "The UN is not a place for the desperate but a place where dictators reach out and demand that Americans pay the bills."

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