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UN sanctions on Iran set to resume after push to delay fails
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Efforts by China and Russia to postpone the reimposition of the sanctions failed to garner enough support in the U.N. Security Council on Friday.
That failure came after last-ditch talks between Iran and European officials, including the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas, ended without success earlier this week.
The sanctions include an arms embargo, a ban on uranium enrichment, a ban on activity related to some ballistic missiles, and potential inspections of Iran Air and Iran Shipping Lines cargo, as well as a freeze of assets and travel bans.
Pezeshkian said Iran needed reassurances that Israel would not attack Iran’s nuclear facilities in order to normalize its uranium enrichment program. He reiterated that the country was not pursuing nuclear weapons.
Iran barred international nuclear inspectors from visiting its facilities after Israel and the U.S. bombed several of its sites during the June conflict that Iranian authorities report killed more than 1,000 people.
“The United States has betrayed diplomacy, but it is the E3 (Britain, Germany and France) which have buried it,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi told the United Nations on Friday.
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Moscow immediately called for “a repeat round of voting” after Russia fell short of the support needed to gain a seat on the International Civil Aviation Organization’s 36-member council.
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Humanitarian charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) suspended its services in Gaza City Friday after Israeli forces encircled its clinics. There are hundreds of thousands trapped in the city, MSF said.
Israel has so far defied pressure to end the conflict, with a growing number of states recognizing a Palestinian state. Addressing the U.N. after a mass walkout of diplomats Friday, Netanyahu said Israel’s forces were “not done yet,” vowing to clear remnants of the Hamas militant group from the territory.
His address struck a markedly different tone to that of his ally, U.S. President Donald Trump, who said Friday that a deal to end Israel’s campaign was “very close.” Talks between the parties stalled after Israel bombed Hamas’s leadership in Doha.
In his address to the U.N. this week, Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani called the Israeli strike in Doha a “treacherous attack” that “undermines any diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the genocide against the people in Gaza.”
Speaking at a protest in New York City Friday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro called for a global force to enforce international law in Gaza and urged U.S. soldiers to “disobey” Trump. The U.S. State Department said it would cancel Petro’s visa over his “incendiary” actions.
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