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US effort to snap back Iran sanctions discredits UN Security Council
Aug 21, 2020 02:04Iran’s foreign minister says an effort launched by the United States to restore UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic on the strength of the so-called “snapback” mechanism under a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers will undermine international mechanisms and discredit the UN Security Council.
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UN envoy Ja'afari: West subverts political process in Syria
Aug 20, 2020 14:40Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations says some permanent members of the Security Council are desperately attempting to undermine the political process in Syria.
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Iran’s FM pens important letter to UN about US push for 'snapback' sanctions
Aug 20, 2020 03:10Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has written to the UN Security Council about Washington’s new push to invoke the so-called snapback provision in the 2015 nuclear deal and re-impose all UN sanctions against Tehran.
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Russia: US snapback push against Iran mockery of common sense
Aug 20, 2020 01:52Russia has criticized the “poorly calculated” US push to trigger the so-called snapback provision in the 2015 nuclear deal aimed at re-imposing all UN sanctions against Iran, saying the new adventurism will draw negative international reaction since it makes a “mockery” of common sense.
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Pompeo: US use of snapback against Iran 'fully valid'
Aug 20, 2020 01:43US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is desperately trying to make the case for the use of snapback against Iran from an internationally backed deal that his boss, President Donald Trump, quit in 2018.
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Yemeni fighters keep fighting, UN addresses war-torn environment
Aug 19, 2020 14:27Another successful wide-scale operation has been scored by the Yemeni army and the Ansarullah fighters.
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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.