Trump’s leadership said Saturday that all UN sanctions opposing Iran have been restored, a move that the rest of the globals reject as illegal and will likely be ignored. The US announcement will be debatable at the UN General Assembly’s high-level annual meetings starting Monday, which are held mainly this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U. S. announcement came 30 days after Pompeo notified the board that the administration triggered a “retracement” because Iran in “significant default” with its obligations under the agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA.
But the overwhelming majority of the 15-nation council finds U. S. action illegal.
They refer to Security Council Resolution 2231, which establishes the nuclear agreement. Sets that “a PVPOA player state” can cause the “backward” mechanism. The United States insists that, as an original player, you have the legal right, even if you have stopped participating.
Guterres noted in the letter that “the Security Council accepted no after receiving the letter from the Secretary of State of the United States, nor from any of its members or its president. “
He said most board members wrote to the president “that the letter was not a notification” that triggered the snapback. And he said the chairmans of the August and September board “have indicated that they are not in a position to take action on it. “
For this reason, Guterres said, “It is up to the Secretary-General to continue as if such uncertainty existed. “
The UN Secretariat, through Guterres, provides the Security Council in the implementation of sanctions, adding the creation of committees and teams trained to monitor their implementation, as well as websites on the nature of sanctions and lists of sanctions.
Guterres said the UN will not take any action “until the Security Council clarifies” whether or not the sanctions lifted will be imposed again.
According to the snapback provision, UN sanctions at ease or lifted through the nuclear agreement are re-imposed and must be implemented through UN member states. or selling traditional weapons.
The bans were lifted or were about to expire in the 2015 deal in which Iran got billions of dollars in sanctions relief in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program.
China and Russia have been categorically uncompromising in rejecting America’s position, but America’s allies have also not been shy.
In a letter sent Friday to the President of the Security Council, Britain, France and Germany – the three European participants still committed to the agreement – they said the US announcement “is incapable of having a legal effect,” so it reprints the opposing sanctions. Iran.
Russia’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyanskiy, said the United States had turned away from itself. “It’s very painful to see a wonderful country humiliated in this way, it opposes in its cursed delusion the other members of the UN Security Council,” he wrote on Twitter.
In its own letter to the Security Council on Saturday, Iran said the US resolution “is null and void, has no price or legal effect, and is completely unacceptable. “
The White House plans to include an executive order Monday specifying how the United States will enforce re-established sanctions, and the State and Treasury departments deserve how foreigners and businesses will be penalized for violations.
“The United States expects all UN member states to fully comply with their obligations to implement these measures,” Pompeo said. “If UN member states fail to meet their obligations to bring these sanctions into effect, the United States is ready to use our national government to impose the consequences of these mistakes and ensure that Iran does not obtain the benefits of UNITED Nations-prohibited activities.
It is still known how the leadership will react to being ignored, especially through its European allies, who have pledged to keep the nuclear agreement alive. A big rejection of the U. S. position. agencies, organizations and treaties, extra from the foreign community.
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Matthew Lee contributed to this from Washington.
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