The Trump administration announced on Saturday that US sanctions against Iran had been reinstated’ with most of the world's measures declaring it illegal and setting its sights on the World Bank ahead of the annual General Assembly for its ugly show. Was
The administration says it has activated
the "snapback" procedure in a 2015 US Security Council resolution
signing the Iran nuclear deal, which took effect at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Just
30 days after notifying the council, Foreign Secretary Mike Pompeo acknowledged
that Iran was in "significant ineffectiveness" with its obligations
under the agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan, or JCPOA. Is known’
from known as.
Pompeo said in a statement: "The
United States has taken this decisive step because, in addition to Iran's
failure to fulfill its JCPOA commitments, the Security Council has sought to
extend the UN arms embargo on Iran." Of. “Failed, which has been going on
for 13 years. “Exactly at 8 o'clock
"In accordance with our rights ... we
launched the Snapback process to restore previous US sanctions on
Snapback," he said. "As a result, the world will be safer."
The White House plans to issue an
executive order Monday explaining how the U.S. will enforce restoration
sanctions, and state and Treasury departments are expected’ to allow outsiders
and businesses. Give Violation will be punished.
"The United States expects all member
states to live up to their responsibilities in implementing these measures,"
Pompeo said. "If the United States, member states, fulfill its obligations
to enforce these sanctions." If I fail, the United States is ready to use
our domestic authorities to impose the consequences of those failures and to
ensure that Iran benefits from American illicit activity. "
But the US move faces strong opposition
from other members of the Security Council, who have vowed to ignore it. He
says that when US President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018
and imposed US sanctions on Iran, the justification for attacking Snapback was
lost. The United States maintains that it reserves the right to do so as a
party to the treaty and as a member of the Council.
Prior to the US announcement, fellow
Security Council members stated that there was no legal force in the
declaration, which called into question Snapback's ability to enforce the law.
Snapbacks mean that international sanctions that have been eased or lifted from
the nuclear deal’ have been reintroduced and will be extended to US member
states, including at any level for uranium enrichment on Iran. To impose fines
on this includes launching ballistic missiles, buying, and selling conventional
weapons.
The sanctions were either lifted or lifted
under the terms of an agreement that provided billions of dollars in aid to
Iran in exchange for sanctions on its nuclear’ program.
China and Russia in particular have been
adamant in rejecting the US position, but US allies have not been embarrassed.
In a letter to the presidents of the Security Council, Britain, France and
Germany on Friday, the three European partners, who are bound’ by the
agreement, said the US declaration had "no legal effect" and
therefore Doesn't apply. " Can
"This shows that the decisions and
actions that will be taken based on this procedure or its possible consequences
will also have no legal effect," he wrote. Thus, the three countries said,
the relief provided in the sanctions provided by the nuclear deal would remain
in place.
Russia's deputy ambassador to the United
States, Dmitry Polsenki, said the Americans had only isolated themselves. He
wrote on Twitter: "It hurts to see a big country being humiliated in this
way. Other members of the US Security Council have also opposed it."
In a letter to the Security Council on
Saturday, Iran said the US move was "null and void", had no legal
status and no effect, and was "absolutely unacceptable."
U.S. officials have spoken out strongly
about their intentions to ensure sanctions, but it is unclear how the
administration will respond, especially to its European allies. Promised to
keep alive. Large-scale rejection of US positions could put pressure on the
administration, which has distanced itself from the international community
from a number of US agencies, organizations and agreements.
In the heat of the re-election campaign,
Trump plans to address Iran at the annual high-level session of the General
Assembly on Tuesday. Officials say they will also discuss brokering agreements
with Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to normalize relations
with Iran.
And, as he seeks to prove his credentials
as a politician before the election, Trump has threatened to retaliate against
Iran "a thousand times" if he attacks US officials abroad. Will There
is another element of this uncertainty.
Iran warned earlier this week that it
could jeopardize US interests in avenging the death of a senior Iranian general
in a US airstrike earlier this year. But the head of the country's
Revolutionary Guard Corps ridiculed the news that he was plotting to
assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa, saying Iran's response had
affected those killed directly or indirectly. Will be’ targeted
Amid uncertainty over the situation, 14
other members of the Security Council and five of the 195 member states of the
United States have said they will abide by sanctions when President Trump
withdraws from the nuclear deal more than two years ago. Had lost its legal
status.
Pompeo traveled to the United Nations on
August 20 to formally inform the Security Council that the United States was
mobilizing Snapback because Iran was not complying with the nuclear deal. He
rejected suggestions that the administration was involved in any legally
objectionable or even controversial matter.
He says the snapback mechanism in the
nuclear deal was "something the former administration said was right"
and that Trump has condemned the worst deal ever. Yet, with the exception of
Israel and the Gulf Arab states, no country in the world agrees with the United
States.
Trump administration officials have been
attacking the 2015 nuclear deal for years. He says it is fatal because some of
the sanctions on Iran's nuclear program are slowly being lifted, which could
lead to the country's development of nuclear weapons.
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