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France, Britain, Germany oppose US move to reimpose Iran sanctions
Aug 21, 2020 00:54France, Germany, and Britain will not support a US demand to the United Nations to reimpose sanctions on Iran over accusations it violated its 2015 nuclear deal, they said in a joint statement on Thursday.
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US formally requests ‘snapback’ of UN sanctions against Iran
Aug 20, 2020 23:55US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has sent a formal request to the UN Security Council to ‘snap back’ sanctions against Iran, claiming Tehran violated the 2015 nuclear deal that Washington has unilaterally ditched.
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Russia will counter US attempts to renew sanctions against Iran: UN envoy
Aug 20, 2020 23:29Russia will counter any attempts of the US to renew sanctions against Iran within the UN, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya told reporters on Thursday.
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US attempt to activate trigger mechanism will only result in its humiliation: Iran envoy
Aug 20, 2020 19:21Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations referred to the United States' efforts to activate the trigger mechanism, stressing that this would only result in the humiliation of the United States again.
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New York Times: It is unclear whether Trump is able to activate trigger mechanism
Aug 20, 2020 17:00Without European support, it is not clear how the United States alone would enforce UN sanctions against Iran while world powers are trying to save the 2015 nuclear deal.
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Moscow: return of UN sanctions against Iran 'absurd'
Aug 20, 2020 15:38Calling the US attempt to use the trigger mechanism "absurd", the Russian foreign ministry stressed that Washington has no legal or political right to demand the return of UN sanctions against Iran.
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US plan to trigger 'snapback' sanctions on Iran to meet failure: Rouhani
Aug 19, 2020 10:54Tehran (IP) - The Iranian president said that the US plan to reinstate sanctions on Iran via the so-called 'snapback' mechanism linked to an international nuclear deal will "go nowhere".
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Pompeo likely to visit UN in pursuit of sanctions on Iran: diplomats
Aug 19, 2020 00:18The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will likely travel to New York on Thursday to seek a return of all UN sanctions on Iran and meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, diplomats and a UN official said.
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Zarif: US is not a superpower anymore
Aug 18, 2020 04:29Tehran (IP) - Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the recent US miscalculation showed that the era of this country as a superpower is over.
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Rouhani: Recent UNSC meeting, great political, historical victory for Iran
Aug 17, 2020 23:20Tehran (IP)- Referring to the government's measures in the political sector, Iran's president stated that there is no such issue in the history of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that during two important meetings, 14 countries all oppose to a member, namely the US at the time of his own trip to New York and at the time when the US President Donald Trump himself was chairing the meeting at the UNSC two years ago.
