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US attempts to present itself as part of Iran nuclear deal have 'no future': Russian envoy
May 01, 2020 01:14Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna has lambasted the US for trying to present Washington as still a participant to Iran's nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), saying such attempts have "no future."
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E3 agrees with Iran: US is out of JCPOA, cannot push for arms embargo renewal
Apr 30, 2020 08:21Reports say the three European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the E3, appear to be in agreement with Iran’s argument that the US is no longer a party to the accord and thus not entitled to push for the extension of a UN arms embargo on Tehran.
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UNSC voices concern about secessionist bid in south Yemen
Apr 30, 2020 04:48The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has expressed deep concern about a declaration of self-rule in Yemen’s south by separatists allied to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), reaffirming the world body’s strong commitment to Yemen’s “unity and sovereignty.”
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UN envoy says Myanmar army still committing ‘crimes against humanity’
Apr 30, 2020 01:56The UN’s special rapporteur on Myanmar’s human rights situation has accused the country’s military of targeting “civilian population” in two states to an extent that could amount to “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity”.
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Any measure to extend Iran’s arms embargo in breach of Resolution 2231: Takht Ravanchi
Apr 29, 2020 13:03The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations has called US efforts to extend Iran’s arms embargo in contravention of Security Council Resolution 2231, which has endorsed the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal, saying the claim that the United States is still a party to the agreement allowing it to invoke a sanctions snapback under certain pretexts is nothing but “an unprecedented” joke.
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Zarif, Lavrov scorn Pompeo’s plan for nuclear deal
Apr 29, 2020 02:16Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov dismissed as “delusional” a plan that the US state secretary has proposed to keep Washington a participant state in the JCPOA in order to extend the UN sanctions against Tehran.
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Libyan strongman dismisses UN unity pact, vows to form own govt.
Apr 28, 2020 09:12Libya’s renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar has dismissed a 2015 United Nations-brokered unity accord for the war-ravaged country as “a thing of the past,” vowing to establish a new government under his rule.
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Iran’s Zarif lashes out at Pompeo for saying US still ‘participant’ in JCPOA
Apr 27, 2020 08:52Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took a swipe at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after he claimed that Washington had not quit the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers and remained a “participant state”.
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Russia decries ‘hypocritical’ US claims against IRGC satellite
Apr 27, 2020 00:43Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations has slammed Washington’s “hypocrisy” for condemning Iran’s recent launch of an Islamic Revolution Guards Corps satellite citing UN Security Council resolution 2231.
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Pompeo to claim US didn’t quit Iran nuclear deal to make UN impose arms embargo
Apr 27, 2020 00:34US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reportedly going to claim that Washington has not quit the Iran nuclear deal and technically remains a “participant state,” in order to use a mechanism embedded within the accord to make the UN impose arms embargo on Tehran.