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The United States is circulating a revised resolution that would extend a UN arms embargo on Iran indefinitely, and is seeking more support in the 15-member Security Council, where veto power Russia and China have voiced strong opposition. U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft said the new concept “takes into account advice …

Iran has urged the United Nations to hold the United States responsible for the interception of an Iranian passenger plane by two U.S. fighter jets in the air over Syria last month, calling it “unfair” and an “adventurous act”. Iran’s UN Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi said in identical letters to …