The Iranian lies to achieve the end of the UN arms embargo
Last December 3, via Zoom , Zarif spoke to Med Dialogue , interviewed by the director of ISPI Paolo Magri. Like every year, unfortunately, a free red carpet for the Iranian foreign minister, who was able to freely say whatever he wanted.
Beyond the lies and the usual swearing against Israel and the United States, however, we are interested in his interview: speaking of Washington's possible return to the nuclear agreement, Zarif said that the Americans still have responsibilities, because they are issued by the Jcpoa but not by the UN Resolution 2231, which was approved in 2015 to legitimize the Vienna agreement.
This is a very relevant statement, even if passed on the sly. It means, in fact, that the American diplomatic experts were right when they claimed that they had the right to propose the extension of the UN embargo on the sale of arms to Iran, which expired on October 18, 2020. Then, however, the Iranian regime – supported not only from China and Russia, but also to the EU – he claimed exactly the opposite, arguing that Washington had no right to propose the renewal of the embargo, because Trump had taken the United States out of the JCPOa.
On the other hand, those who have always seriously followed this issue know very well how much the Iranian regime has lied since the beginning of the agreement on the nuclear program. When it was signed in 2015, Tehran made it clear that it felt bound to the JCPOA, but not to UN resolution 2231, because that resolution contained some (minimal) limitations to the missile program as well, such as a ban on carrying out missile tests with intrinsically capable carriers. carry a nuclear nose cone (which Iran has done freely in recent years …).
In fact, therefore, the Iranian regime has achieved the end of the UN embargo on the sale of arms illegally, taking advantage not only of the support of Moscow and Beijing – interested in selling armaments to Tehran – but also that of Europeans like Borrell, more interested in to attack Trump than to maintain the commitment to ensure the security of the Middle East region, avoiding the risk that the Islamic Republic will equip itself with additional weapons to threaten all its neighbors.
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