On Thursday, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo notified the president of the UN Security Council and reporters about the Trump administration formally drafting a UN resolution 2231 that sought to reimpose all UN sanctions on Iran due to Iran allegedly violating the 2015 nuclear deal.
The UN resolution 2231 states the rules of the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers. However, the US had withdrawn from this nuclear accord, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), on May 8, 2018.
Even after withdrawing from the nuclear accord, the US claims it has rights to the process called ‘snapback’. The snapback process allows a country part of the deal to reimpose sanctions on Iran. The US claims its right over this process by stating that it was initially part of the deal and is also currently a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Although Pompeo expects the US resolution to “come back into place 31 days from now”, the resolution has drawn swift rejections from the nations that remain part of the nuclear accord.
Condemning the US move on Twitter, Dmitry Polyansky, a Russian deputy ambassador to the UN, tweeted, “Looks like there are 2 planets. A fictional dog-eat-dog one where the US pretends it can do whatever it wants without ‘cajoling’ anyone, breach and leave deals but still benefit from them, and another one where the rest of the world lives and where intl law and diplomacy reign”.
Stressing on their support for the nuclear accord (JCPOA), the three European nations part of Iran deal also rejected the US move.
“France, Germany and the United Kingdom note that the US ceased to be a participant to the JCPOA following their withdrawal from the deal on May 8, 2018,” the European nations said in a statement. “We cannot, therefore, support this action which is incompatible with our current efforts to support the JCPOA.”
In response to the European statement, Pompeo accused the three nations of secretly agreeing with the US but lacking the courage to agree to them publicly.
“Instead they chose to side with ayatollahs,” Pompeo said. “Their actions endanger the people of Iraq, of Yemen, of Lebanon, of Syria and indeed their own citizens as well.”
Commenting on the US resolution, Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran’s Ambassador to the UN said the US letter was “inadmissible”.
“The US has no legal authority. The US has no legal argument whatsoever,” Ravanchi said.
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“We are confident that nothing is going to happen in the next 30 days. So, the US attempt is in futility,” Ravanchi added.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, UN’s nuclear watchdog, reported Iran violating some parts of the accord, but Iran reasoned these statements by saying that those violations were a result of the US violating the deal by removing itself from it and then re-implementing brutal unilateral sanctions.