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| US will fight, but Iran arms embargo is on death row - analysis |
| 2020-07-01 |
| [JPost] - The battle between the US and Iran — over whether the decade-old conventional arms embargo on the Islamic Republic remains past its scheduled expiration in October — is about two much bigger issues. The first is nuclear weapons; the second is how much power the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps can project in the region — and not just arms sales in the abstract. As such, the positions of the various UN Security Council members at Tuesday’s debate, where US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed to extend the arms embargo past October, reflected their positions on the multidimensional issues in the US-Iran standoff. If Israel was rooting for the US initiative and hoped that some recent anti-Iran moves by neutral UN agencies might help, Tuesday’s UNSC hearing made the strategy look like a lost cause. China and Russia did not merely oppose Pompeo’s initiative. They also audaciously rejected the conclusion of officials from the UN Secretary General’s Office: that drones and cruise missiles which were used to attack Saudi Arabia in September 2019 — and seized off the coast of Yemen in February — were Iranian in origin. ...China and Russia feel compelled to contradict any findings against Iran’s nuclear program or non-conventional arms, even when the conclusions come from neutral UN agencies. In their eyes — willfully ignoring the Islamic Republic’s violence in the region from 2015-2018 — all the current tension is the fault of the US for pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018. I understand Russia - trouble in ME raise their oil's price. But WTF Chinese interest except annoying USA? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 China showing that they don't adhere to anything they don't want to is more like it. |
| Posted by: Chris 2020-07-01 14:02 |