Russia rejects the US campaign to impose a permanent arms embargo on Iran

Moscow-Sana

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed that the administration of US President Donald Trump is waging a politically motivated campaign against Iran, calling for universal condemnation of its attempt to persuade the UN Security Council to impose a permanent arms embargo on Iran.

"The United States withdrew from the nuclear agreement between Iran and the six major powers and now does not have the legal right to try to use the United Nations resolution that supports the agreement to continue the arms embargo," the Associated Press quoted Lavrov as saying in a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and members of the United Nations Security Council. Iran, which is scheduled to end on the 18th of next October indefinitely.

"The State Department officials' statements that the Trump administration is not planning to resume its obligations under the nuclear agreement but seeks to invoke the rights that are allegedly derived from the United Nations resolution to prevent the supply of weapons to Iran are ridiculous and irresponsible," Lavrov added, stressing that the United Nations should not become a hostage Of the political situation in the United States.

Lavrov pointed out that the nuclear agreement and the Security Council resolution constitute an integrated unit and cannot be considered separately. Under Article 25 of the United Nations Charter, the American side is obliged to implement the Security Council resolutions instead of undermining them through its illegal actions, noting that international courts saw that the party that disavows Or if it does not fulfill its own obligations, it cannot reserve the rights that it claims to derive from these obligations.

Lavrov indicated that Russia and other responsible members of the international community will continue to make every effort to maintain the nuclear agreement and said: "The United States must recognize that there are no legal or other reasons for its policy to use Security Council mandates to achieve its selfish interests."

On May 8, 2018, US President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the nuclear agreement signed between Iran and the five plus one group in 2015, which was adopted by the Security Council in Resolution 2231 and the re-introduction of unilateral sanctions against it, which drew widespread international criticism and condemnation.