The United Nations did not accept a resolution on Friday that China and Russia that would have extended the sanctions for Iran with another six months under the Nuclear deal.
The mood was 4 to 9, with Algeria, China, Pakistan and Russia in favor and Denmark, France, Greece, Panama, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Somalia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Guyana and South Korea have abstained.
The mood came after Great -Britain, France and Germany had caused the “Snapback” measure of the deal that recovers the sanctions on Iran after stuck conversations about its nuclear program.
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The United Nations did not accept a resolution on Friday that China and Russia that would have extended the sanctions for Iran with another six months under the Nuclear deal. (United Nations)
The sanctions, which come into force, unless there is a last-minute deal on Friday, will freeze from Iranian assets abroad, stopping arms agreements with Tehran and punishing any development of Iran’s ballistic rocket program.
“We had hoped that European colleagues and the US would think twice, and they would opt for the path of diplomacy and dialogue instead of their awkward blackmail, which only results in escalation of the situation in the region,” Dmitry Polyanskiy, Deputy Russian Ambassador in the UN, said during the meeting.
Bushr Nuclear Plant in Iran April 29, 2024 (Morteza Nikoubazl/Nurphoto via Getty images)
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The Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, had also met his French, German and British counterparts in the run-up to the UN mood.
A European diplomat told the Associated Press that the meeting “did not produce new developments, new results.”
On Tuesday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, also said that Iran would not “surrender to pressure” and that negotiations with the US would be a “dead end”.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, center, runs on his way to a bilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the General Meeting of the United Nations in the UN Head Quarter in New York City Wednesday. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty images)
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In an interview on Friday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called the decision “unfair, unjust and illegal.”
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
