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UNITED NATIONS: The Biden government on Thursday (February 18) annulled former President Donald Trump’s reinstatement of UN sanctions on Iran, an announcement that could help Washington move toward rejoining the 2015 nuclear deal aimed at curbing the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic.
Acting United States Ambassador Richard Mills sent a letter to the UN Security Council on behalf of President Joe Biden, saying that the United States “hereby withdraws” three letters from the Trump administration that culminated in its announcement on the 19th. September that the United States had reimposed UN sanctions on Tehran. .
Mills said in the letter obtained by The Associated Press that the sanctions measures terminated in the 2015 council resolution supporting the nuclear deal with six major powers, but restored by Trump in September, “remain terminated.”
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Trump pulled the United States out of the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, in 2018, accusing Iran of serious violations.
Biden has said that the United States wants to rejoin the pact and the State Department said Thursday that the United States would accept an invitation from the EU to attend a meeting of the participants in the original agreement: Britain, France, Germany, Russia. , China and Iran.
The Trump administration’s decision to invoke a provision in the 2015 council resolution that allows for the “rollback” of sanctions because Iran was in “significant breach” of its obligations under the agreement was ignored by the rest of the Security Council and the world.
The overwhelming majority of members on the 15-nation council called Trump’s action illegal, because the United States was no longer a member of the JCPOA.
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the UN would not support the reimposition of sanctions on Iran as the United States was demanding until it gets the green light from the Security Council. He said there was “uncertainty” about whether former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had activated the “rollback” mechanism.
