Saturday, 13 June_A new report has warned that the approach adopted by the administration of US President Donald Trump to kill off the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will not only lead to "serious consequences" for the multilateral agreement, but also "do irreparable damage" to the UN Security Council (UNSC).
The Foreign Policy reported on Friday that Washington is dialing up efforts to kill the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) completely through pushing the remaining parties to the agreement to extend a UN arms embargo on Tehran.
The US, it added, is also threatening to trigger the so-called snapback of all UN sanctions on Iran under the pretext of what it calls Iran’s destabilizing activities.
However, such moves have placed Washington in "direct confrontation" with the JCPOA signatories, with Russia and China expressing their opposition to the US policy, and the Islamic Republic threatening to withdraw entirely from the JCPOA, as well as the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), if UN sanctions are re-imposed, the report said.
"The showdown threatens not just the viability of the Iran nuclear deal, which has been tottering for two years—but which the remaining participants still hope can be salvaged—but also the legitimacy of the UN Security Council," it noted.
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