Brought to the UN Security Council Thursday, the US vote on extending the Iran arms embargo has come and gone, and has failed miserably, to the point that Russia and China, each of whom were preparing to veto it, didn’t need to bother because it was never going to pass.
Weeks of US lobbying and pushing for consensus ended with two yes votes, the US and the Dominican Republic. They needed 13 yes votes before a veto was even going to come up.
There were 11 abstentions, including Germany, Britain, and France, the other western members of the P5+1 nuclear deal. Russia and China voted no, but the veto was not an issue. Britain said they abstained because their vote wouldn’t have mattered either way.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo angrily condemned the failed vote, and said the US would ensure that Iran could never buy weapons again, even though they don’t have support for that at the UN.
US would ensure that Iran could never buy weapons again, even though they don’t have support for that at the UN. Here comes the bullying. Once again time for the civilised world to say “F…k off”
The US should offer to give nuclear weapons to Iran as a symbol of an agreement of nonaggression.
That would involve unilaterally dropping all adherence to U.S. sanctions…
The US government’s mantra seems to be, “Give War A Chance!”
De-dollarize as much as you can.
There is big bucks in war, which peace never sees & You & I are forced to pay.
The world is clearly no longer considering Washington as rational or a reliable ally. Things have degenerated into a FUBAR situation.
At….Least..!!!!!!!
American “exceptionalism” otherwise known as bullying is at work here of course. America’s domestic issues are insurmountable, chaos, no end in sight for normalcy. Yet, we focus on a Iran and waste resources that could help the home front. But those American fanatic land thieving settlers in the Zionist entity from Brooklyn could give a damn about fellow Americans in NY. St Louis, Philadelphia,etc. Free Palestine
amerikan exceptionalism derives from Tocqueville—“amerikans really are different than everybody else” and Stalin, who observed that USA frequently and routinely violate international law/convention
As Geoffrey Gorer wrote, “amerikans bewilder Europeans”
They bewilder Canadians too. Too bad we have to share an 8000 km long border with the world’s biggest bully. They’ve kind of got us between a rock and a hard place.
use could only secure 1 vote from 1 of their colonies—the empire will collapse in 5 years
Hallelujah!!!
see reply to true sense
5 Years??
Johan Galtung a sociologist and a mathematician has employed 15 mathematical indices to predict US empire will collapse in 3-10 years; he required 6 to predict USSR would disintegrate by 1990….the Marxist, Jameson also writes last phase of empire as does orlov
I hope I live long enough to see it. I’ve been waiting for the US to collapse since the 60s. I think it’s inevitable.
And how does the morbidly obese Amerikastani war criminal Pompous intend to prevent Iran from buying weapons? Plonk his tons of fat down on the runway in front of any aeroplane flying to Tehran?
What a great idea
I’d like to see that!
11 US allies abstained = 11 C0WARDS.
Only Russia and China stood up against the US and voted “N0,”
Actually it took a lot of guts to abstain… or maybe not.
If not for the desire to rebuke and embarass anything Trump, U.S. allies would have voted in favour.
Interesting timing, the US piracy of a million gallons of Iranian gas on its way to market. It allowed CNN to focus on US govt allegations of Iran sponsoring terrorism, presented as fact more than allegation, instead of the totally failed UN vote. Apparently the world needs to organize military escorts to secure trade against US theft and aggression.
Seizing another country’s ships is piracy and their contents is piracy, plain and simple. So now not only is the US the world’s biggest bully, they’re pirates as well.
It wasn’t piracy, it was blackmail. The owners of the tankers faced crippling sanctions.
The US has conducted piracy for (at least) decades (the first time I noticed, but probably far from the first time, was in the late 1980s).
Whether this particular incident was piratical in nature, or just legal/economic threats resulting in a handover of oil, is still an open question. Not that that wouldn’t be wrong as well, but it would be a wrong of a different nature.
Nothing like going to the UN to make sure the country you’ve been egging on into a war since forever won’t be able to arm itself to fight back.
The US military are experts at coming into the ring after the fight and kicking the loser while hes down.
Iran hasn’t actually lost yet….
Kicking Iran would be a huuuge mistake.
Cry all you want Pompeo…for your agonizing defeat…!
More like huff & puff.. A real clear signal the world is sick & tired of their aggredssions, lies, distortions. This is what happens when military thug is asked to conduct diplomacy. You can scare some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but as Pompoo has show you cannot scare all of the people, all of the time. Worse yet, some of the times you can only scare one hapless satrap making the over stuffed tough talking oaf look like an utter FOOL… And a BIG LOSER.
Looks good on him. I am eagerly awaiting the US getting its well-deserved comeuppance.
Not even the fake claim of having stolen Iranian oil on the high sea did help their case in this regard. The ships weren’t Iranian and didn’t fly the Iranian flag. Fuel was sold F.O.B fright on board. Impotent US BS
I wonder how much officials of the Dominican Republic were paid in bribes for their vote.
Probably less than the UAE but that was a bigger prize.
Did not we just seas some Iranian ships ? Isn’t that a illegal act of war . What does the United Nations say about that ?
It is piracy.
Not quite; just a legalized theft.
Excellent news!