US declare UN sanctions reimposed on Iran despite disagreement from allies

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The Trump administration intends to declare U.N. sanctions reimposed on Iran in the coming days a month after it triggered a snapback mechanism in the Security Council resolution pertaining to the Iran nuclear deal but the move is likely to be ignored by a number of countries, including U.S. allies.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. we will return to the United Nations to reimpose sanctions so that the arms embargo will become permanent next week. We believe deeply that this is good for the peoples of all nations. We’ll do all the things we need to do to ensure that those sanctions are enforced. The U.S. maximum pressure strategy against Iran was working. I think anyone who has stared at the state of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s financial situation today, the fact they can no longer have the resources to underwrite Hezbollah and the Shia militias in all of the places that they have spent money for nefarious activities for all of these years, those resources are greatly reduced, their capacity to inflict harm around the world is greatly reduced.

The move has the potential to lead to a credibility crisis at the U.N coming just ahead of the body’s General Assembly next week. Pompeo on Wednesday didn’t go into detail but promised the U.S. would do its share as part of the its responsibilities to enable peace, this time in the Middle East.

Pompeo went to the U.N. last month to trigger the snapback mechanism in Security Council Resolution 2231, the resolution that enshrined the Iran nuclear deal. The mechanism triggers a 30 day countdown to the reimposition of most expired or expiring U.N. sanctions against the theocratic regime including an arms embargo due to expire in October as part of the 2015 accord. But other countries on the council, including China, Russia, the U.K., France and Germany have opposed the move by the U.S. and appear set to ignore it. They argue that because the U.S. left the Iran deal in 2018 it is not in a position to trigger snapback.