The UN Security Council has rejected an extension of Iran’s arms embargo, which State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus told “Fox & Friends” “Pete Hegseth is an ethical concern.
“There was a real lack of moral courage at the UN Security Council on Friday night,” she said. “This is an arms embargo of 13 years or even potentially longer. And this has lasted through Republican and Democratic administrations. This is something that the world needs to be recognized by the UN Security Council. And why is that? … Because Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism. ”
UN SECURITY COUNCIL REJECTS US RESOLUTION TO EXENDEND IRAN ARMS EMBARGO
Ending the embargo will allow Iran to buy conventional weapons from China and Russia. Countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council and Israel are now in direct line of fire, but Ortagus said European nations do not have the courage to vote no.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Polish Minister of Defense Mariusz Blaszczak greet each other after signing the US-Poland Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday 15 August 2020. (Janek Skarzynski / Pool via AP)
Meanwhile, President Trump’s Middle East peace deal between Israel and the UAE is a “historic” deal that Ortgaus said she never thought she would see.
“It’s the type of agreement I never thought I would see if I lived in the Gulf,” she said. ‘And what it took was an administration … It hired a group of people who said we are not going to go with 25 years of conventional thinking. Instead, we will propose a historic peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians. And we will work with the … neighbors in the region not to re-accept conventional wisdom. I can not tell you how important that is. “
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