{"id":77588,"date":"2020-06-07T10:14:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T02:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=77588"},"modified":"2020-06-07T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T02:15:27","slug":"us-shares-un-embargo-bid-on-iran-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=77588","title":{"rendered":"US shares UN embargo bid on Iran with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/inter-05.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/inter-05.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, June 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States said it had shared a draft UN resolution with rival Russia that aims to extend an arms embargo on Iran that expires in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moscow has already voiced opposition to prolonging the ban on conventional arms sales to Tehran, with Russian firms expecting to conclude major deals if restrictions end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelly Craft, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said Washington had shared a draft resolution on the extension with Russia as well as Western allies Britain, France, Germany and Estonia which are all on the 15-nation Security Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPretty soon we\u2019ll be sharing (with) the full 15. But, you know, we are trying to really work very carefully, very thoroughly,\u201d Craft told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRussia and China need to join a global consensus on Iran\u2019s conduct,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is an absolute imperative that we exercise all of our options to make certain that this UN arms embargo is extended.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arms embargo\u2019s expiration date is part of a 2015 UN Security Council resolution that blessed a multinational deal on ending Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five-year window was a compromise between President Barack Obama\u2019s administration and Russia and China, which wanted an immediate end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Donald Trump in 2018 withdrew from the accord, calling it the \u201cworst deal ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But his administration has made the novel argument that the United States remains a participant in the deal under the resolution and can trigger UN sanctions for Iran\u2019s non-compliance with the 2015 deal \u2014 an option it could take if others do not back the arms embargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, which has taken steps away from the 2015 deal in response to unilateral US sanctions imposed by Trump, has warned that the extension of the embargo would mean the death of the nuclear accord. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, June 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States said it had shared a draft UN resolution with rival Russia that aims to extend an arms embargo on Iran that expires in October. Moscow has already voiced opposition to prolonging the ban on conventional arms sales to Tehran, with Russian firms expecting to conclude major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":77591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}