On Sunday, the United States reiterated that “snapback sanctions” against Iran are back in place at the United Nations, and that all nations are compelled to obey them. They say that the US was allowed to unilaterally do this under the P5+1 nuclear deal.
The problem is that the United States is virtually the only nation that thinks so. With the US no longer part of the P5+1 deal, every other party to that deal said the US doesn’t get to make that decision. When the US pushed the matter at the UN Security Council, they refused to act, citing virtual unanimity that the US was wrong in this action. The US argued they didn’t need a vote, but if there had been one, they’d have lost decisively.
For everyone else, Sunday is just another day. The US not only insists the sanctions are real, but has threatened to try to enforce the sanctions unilaterally, world-wide, by themselves. The Trump Administration is planning a series of new threats to try to scare nations into compliance.
This is part of a series of confrontations between the US and the international community over Iran. The US also pushed for Iran’s arms embargo to be extended beyond October, and that vote at the UN General Assembly was an overwhelming defeat. Here too the lack of reality at the UN is not going to stop the US from trying to enforce international law as they wish it existed.
Lets see if Russia or China back off from arms sales if US threatens their companies with sanctions or even Swift cut off.
They don’t back off…They use non dollar transactions…!
The only sane course remaining for the rest of the world, Israel excepted, is to sanction the US and leave it to wallow in its exceptionality–until it is ready to rejoin the human race.
US deserves sanctions against it but given they control the dollar I dont think it would have any real effect
That could change in the not too far off future.
So are we a bigger bully now than we were in 2016? MAGA(G).
The US and Trump are evil.
Why “virtual unanimity”? Who took the side of the US? Would be interesting to know.
Must be referring to the Dominican Republic being the only one that supported the US in it’s effort to continue the arms embargo. And I imagine that was by either threats or bribes.
Any country that caves in to the demands of the USA should be tarred, feathered and run out on a rail.
And they use to call Ron Paul an isolationist.
Edit: are they trying to kill the dollar?
Right. Good. And now we are isolating ourselves as the rogue state that we are.
Who is losing grip on reality, rest of world leaders and reach around UN heads iare just blowing hot air through both their own twisted orifices.
All know US will front any of their losss and kick in more for UN. and NATO culls.
Europe talking big and innocent but they never even began to keep up their agreement under Iran Nuke Treaty.
They played games parcelling out trade deals that were small one way benefits to themselves.
Iran gold and foreign assets sat in US and European banks all under US orders and Worlds bankers smiling seriously held them like a carrot just out of reach of Iran.
Europe has never needed products from Iran, Afghanistan pipelines owned by them and US supply cheaper oil and gas.
No mattrr where US military is destroying Europe will supply and send soldiers to help and training.
UN will send inn its Blue Helmeted janitors to clean up excess messes.
They played cutesy smiling games but never once complained about Iran having to dump its energy, industrial products, minerals at cut rate prices in side and black markets, all to Europes benefit.
Iranians remember that it was by US and Brits backed By NATO, CANADA and Australia that gave them the Shah and financed and armed Saddam to attack them and are those guys are still practicong genocide while ill robbing Iraq and Syria blind.
Europe and UN leaders know what kerps their positions. Of coifed hair dos and expensive suits possble, the US dollars’ bombs and bullets.
Europe is just like China and Russia who continually give in to US dmands all the while trying to maintain own undies, all hoping that maybe someday they will be able to grow some balls join others and tell US to kiss off.
Iran will be a long dead and failed state before. If ever, that day comes..