The US has circulated a draft resolution to the UN Security Council aiming to indefinitely extend the arms embargo against Tehran, set to expire in October, with veto-powers Russia and China signalling opposition to the move; Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged council members to avoid surrendering to the “law of the jungle”.
Russia's Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia on 30 June slammed the US at the UN Security Council for pursuing a “maximum suffocation” foreign policy against Iran, adding that Washington's objective was to “achieve regime change or create a situation where Iran literally wouldn't be able to breathe”.
“This is like a putting a knee to one's neck,” said Nebenzia, in a veiled reference to the death of black arrestee George Floyd in Minneapolis after a white police officer knelt on his neck. The incident has since sparked protests across the US and in other countries.
The Security Council was meeting on 30 June to discuss a report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that had determined that cruise missiles used in a number of attacks targeting oil facilities and an international airport in Saudi Arabia last year were allegedly of “Iranian origin”.
‘Law of the Jungle'
Vassily Nebenzia's statement came after last week the US introduced a draft resolution at the UN Security Council that would extend the arms embargo on Iran before it expires in mid-October.
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