Economics
Pompeo Finds Pushback at UN in Bid to Extend Iran Arms Embargo
- Germany and France reject U.S. threat for sanctions ‘snapback’
- Iran’s Zarif denounces U.S. ‘whims of an outlaw bully’
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U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo urged the United Nations Security Council to extend an expiring arms embargo on Iran as world powers from China to Europe pushed back against U.S. threats to reimpose UN sanctions on Tehran if the weapons ban lapses.
“This chamber has a choice: Stand for international peace and security, as the United Nations’ founders intended, or let the arms embargo on the Islamic Republic of Iran expire, betraying the UN’s mission and its finest ideals -- which we have all pledged to uphold,” Pompeo told the Security Council in an online meeting on Tuesday.