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U.S. rescinds Trump White House claim that all U.N. sanctions had been reimposed on Iran
2021-02-19
[AlAhram] The United States on Thursday told the United Nations
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Security Council it was rescinding a Trump administration assertion that all U.N. sanctions had been reimposed on Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in September.

Acting U.S. Ambassador Richard Mills informed the 15-member body in a letter seen by Rooters.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told European allies on Thursday that President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
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's administration was prepared to talk to Iran about both countries returning to a 2015 deal that aims to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon.

The Trump administration quit the pact in 2018. Then in August last year former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had triggered a 30-day process at the Security Council that led to the return of U.N. sanctions on Iran and stopped a conventional arms embargo on Tehran from expiring on Oct. 18.

Thirteen of the 15 Security Council members said Washington's move was void because Pompeo used a mechanism agreed under the 2015 nuclear deal that the Trump administration had abandoned.

The Trump administration argued it had triggered the return of sanctions - known as "snapback" - because a U.N. resolution that enshrined the 2015 nuclear pact still named the United States as a participant.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  So far Biden has continued the US sanctions against Iran. In fact on 8 Feb, Biden said the sanctions would continue until Iran complied with the 2015 JCPOA (which of course would be impossible for Iran given that they would have to dispose of a lot of enriched U and other stuff).

So unless Biden moves on the 8 Feb policy, anything he does directly on Iran is pretty symbolic.

Indirectly we help Iran by curtailing oil production in the USA (as it raises world oil prices). This probably matters more than all the symbolic stuff.

Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-02-19 12:55  

#2  Yea, but the cat died...
Posted by: Whinesh Johnson5672   2021-02-19 10:41  

#1  So these were Shroedinger's sanctions - both active while 'legally' null and void?
Posted by: Thomogum Omereng5658   2021-02-19 07:56  

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