A day after the United States’ Iran envoy, Brian Hook, announced his resignation, throwing Washington’s Iran policy into disarray, the Trump administration plans to forge ahead with a doomed diplomatic campaign to adopt a U.N. resolution that seeks to extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran scheduled to expire in October.
The draft resolution—which has not been made public yet and which we are posting here as our Document of the Week—is a classic piece of Trumpian diplomacy. It is bold, aiming to impose sweeping legal obligations on countries to confront and seize vessels carrying Iranian cargo. It is punitive, looking to subject multiple Iranian individuals and entities, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, to an asset freeze and travel ban. And it is expected to secure little, if any, support from key Europeans allies, who feel the initiative would undercut the terms of the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which pledged to lift the embargo if Iran agreed to a series of verifiable steps to limit its nuclear program.
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Anyone see the parallels between the US looking pathetic on the world stage trying a futile enterprise again and again and the IDF Deepfake troll’s endless anti-Iranian racist clownish comments here thinking anyone of us ever believed him?
Ruling criminal mullahs in Iran are issue for modern world. NOT only for Iranians or US, but for any progressive, modern country in the world. Modern world is trying to topple those stinky rag heads from power. They’re trouble makers and their “sharia laws” and other barbaric behavior such as stoning, lashing people in public don’t match to standard norms of modern world. It has nothing to do with Iran or Iranians.
PAYANDEH IRAN