{"id":28718,"date":"2020-06-27T12:06:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T06:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=28718"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:06:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T06:36:53","slug":"beijing-and-moscow-oppose-an-embargo-extension-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=28718","title":{"rendered":"Beijing and Moscow oppose an embargo extension against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The China-Russia-Iran Arms Alliance<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n

China doesn\u2019t want to destroy global institutions so much as remake them in its image. The current fight over the Iran arms embargo at the United Nations shows what a Beijing-dominated world order would look like. It\u2019s something for American allies frustrated with President Trump\u2019s leadership to keep in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

This week the U.S. sent the U.N. Security Council a draft resolution to extend indefinitely an arms embargo on Iran. The Security Council has had restrictions on the country since 2007, but the 2015 nuclear deal allows for their gradual removal beginning in October. The embargo\u2019s expiration date\u2014like the accord\u2019s other \u201csunset\u201d provisions\u2014is one of the fatal flaws of Barack Obama\u2019s deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\"RussianRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attending a news conference following their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on June 16.PHOTO: XINHUA\/ZUMA PRESS<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. wants to continue preventing Tehran from selling, buying or supplying weapons internationally. The embargo also requires countries to inspect cargo at home or at sea if they suspect it contains banned materiel. This isn\u2019t punishment for the sake of punishment: Another problem in the 2015 deal was its failure to fully address Iran\u2019s regional imperialism, which has worsened since the nuclear deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres acknowledged this month that Iran was responsible for missile attacks on Saudi oil sites last year. Iran also funds and supplies proxy forces like Kataib Hezbollah, which has killed Americans in Iraq. The arms embargo isn\u2019t perfect, but removing it would give Iran an even freer hand to destabilize the region by exporting terror in support of its revolutionary ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The U.S. and Europe have clashed over Iran policy, sometimes bitterly, since Mr. Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal two years ago. Yet they\u2019ve recently found common ground around the Iranian threat. France, Germany and the United Kingdom introduced a resolution last week calling out Tehran for not complying with International Atomic Energy Agency inspection requests. They support renewing the arms embargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Maintaining the weapons ban shouldn\u2019t be as divisive as the broader deal is. The Obama Administration touted the embargo extension as a victory in its negotiations with Tehran. When Hillary Clinton announced her support for the deal in 2015, she did so with the caveat that it had to be part of a broader strategy to contain Iran\u2019s malign actions abroad. Whatever one\u2019s opinion of the nuclear deal, Iran can\u2019t be contained regionally if it can buy advanced Russian and Chinese weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Yet Russia and China oppose an embargo extension, as they also opposed the IAEA on inspections. The U.S. has threatened to unilaterally \u201csnap back\u201d U.N. sanctions against Iran if Beijing and Moscow don\u2019t support the Trump Administration\u2019s embargo resolution. That would set up another fight when Iran, China and Russia take the side of lawlessness at the highest echelons of a global institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The revanchist powers are assisting each other in their expansionist aims while exposing the failure of the U.N. as an enforcer of global norms. As the world anticipates Mr. Trump\u2019s election defeat, look for more of this behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

With input from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The China-Russia-Iran Arms Alliance China doesn\u2019t want to destroy global institutions so much as remake them in its image. The current fight over the Iran arms embargo at the United Nations shows what a Beijing-dominated world order would look like. It\u2019s something for American allies frustrated with President Trump\u2019s leadership to keep in mind. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}