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US sees embarrassing UN defeat over Iran arms embargo proposal
Aug 19, 2020 11:17The US has suffered a humiliating defeat at the United Nations as its proposal to extend an arms embargo on Iran won support from only the Dominican Republic at the Security Council vote. The US resolution was never likely to be passed in the face of Russian and Chinese opposition. It was proposed as a ploy by the President Donald Trump administration to open the way to more drastic action against Iran.
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Millions of Yemenis facing death amid lack of funding, UN warns
Aug 19, 2020 10:48The United Nations has warned that millions of Yemenis are facing death amid lack of funding that forced the organization to shut or severely cut half of its major programs in Yemen.
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Hariri tribunal: Hezbollah, Syria had no link with 2005 blast
Aug 18, 2020 09:51A UN-backed tribunal says it has not been able to establish any link between a 2005 blast in Beirut that killed Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafiq Hariri and the Hezbollah resistance movement or the Syrian government.
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Zarif: Failure of US-drafted anti-Iran resolution at UNSC proves change in intl. relations
Aug 17, 2020 11:44Iran’s foreign minister says failure of a US-drafted anti-Iran resolution, which sought to extend an arms embargo on the Islamic Republic, during a recent United Nations Security Council session heralds fundamental changes in international relations.
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Defense minister: Iran open to arms trade after US humiliation at UNSC
Aug 17, 2020 01:02Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami mocked the US’ humiliating defeat after the rejection of its bid for the extension of a UN arms embargo on Iran, expressing Tehran’s readiness for arms trade with the friends.
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Iran on US ship seizure claim: Cheap propaganda doesn't deflect from US failure at UN
Aug 16, 2020 02:13Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif scoffs at claims that the United States has seized four Venezuela-bound Iranian tankers, clarifying that despite the rumors, the American act of piracy never involved any Iranian vessels.
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Trump says he ‘knew’ UNSC vote on Iran, vows to use nuclear deal snapback
Aug 16, 2020 02:04US President Donald Trump says he “knew” that his resolution against Iran would be rejected in the UN Security Council.
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Failure to extend Iran arms embargo 'not an option,' says US diplomat after UNSC defeat
Aug 16, 2020 01:53The US ambassador to the United Nations says failure to extend the Iran arms embargo is "not an option," after the country saw its biggest defeat in the UN Security Council ever.
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UN refusal to back US-drafted anti-Iran resolution proves existence of intl. law: Russia
Aug 16, 2020 01:02Russia's Foreign Ministry says the almost unanimous refusal of the United Nations Security Council to support a US-sponsored draft resolution on extending the arms embargo against Iran proves that international law exists.
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Iran urges UNSC to stand up against ‘illegal’ US arms ban
Aug 14, 2020 02:22Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York has called on the Security Council to withstand an “illegal” and “ill-intentioned” move by the United States to extend an arms embargo on the Islamic Republic.