🌹🌹🌹UN gathering exposes transatlantic rift on Iran sanctions
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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani seen through a camera eyepiece as
he addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September
2018. © Carlo Allegri, REUTERS
French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday
that Europe would not compromise with the United States over Washington's move
to reactivate sanctions on Iran, highlighting the growing transatlantic rift
over how to deal with Tehran's nuclear programme.
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Macron assailed the "maximum
pressure" policy of US President Donald Trump, saying it had failed to curb Tehran's
interference in the region or ensure it would not acquire a nuclear weapon.
"We will not compromise on the activation
of a mechanism that the United States is not in a position to activate on its
own after leaving the agreement," Macron said in a video message from Paris.
"This would undermine the unity of the Security Council and
the integrity of its decisions, and it would run the risk of further
aggravating tensions in the region," he warned.
'We will not compromise' on Iran nuclear deal, says France's
Macron
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The Trump administration says it is "snapping back"
virtually all UN sanctions on Iran lifted under the nuclear accord with Tehran,
negotiated under former president Barack Obama but which Trump abandoned in
2018.
Washington says it can reimpose the sanctions because it is still
a "participant" in the accord, a position denounced by Europe as
legally untenable.
Trump has insisted that one of the inadequacies of the nuclear
deal is the failure to address Iran's ballistic missile programme or its
interventions in other Middle East countries.
In a nod to Washington, Macron said additional frameworks were
needed for effectively dealing with the Iranian nuclear programme, adding there
needed to be a "capacity to complete" the 2015 accord.
These would ensure that "we will provide responses to Iran's
ballistic activity, but also to its destabilisation in the region".
Macron insisted that France, along with its
European allies Britain and Germany, would keep up its demand for "full
implementation" of the Iran nuclear deal.
He added that they would "not accept the
violations committed by Iran", which has ramped up its nuclear activity in
response to the US withdrawal.
Iran not a 'bargaining chip'
Earlier, Iran's president delivered a defiant and fiery
speech to the UN General Assembly as he insisted it would be the
United States that surrenders to Iran's resilience.
Hassan Rouhani spoke in a pre-recorded
speech just days after Iran’s currency plunged to its lowest levels ever
against the US dollar due to the crippling sanctions imposed by the Trump
administration.
“The United States can impose neither negotiations nor war on us,”
Rouhani said, adding: “Life is hard under sanctions. However, harder is life
without independence.”
Rouhani compared his country’s plight with that of George
Floyd, the Black American man who died in May after a white police officer
in Minneapolis pinned him to the ground by pressing a knee into his neck.
Floyd's death set off nationwide protests in support of Black lives.
Calling it “reminiscent of our own experience,” Rouhani said: “We
instantly recognise the feet kneeling on the neck as the feet of arrogance on
the neck of independent nations.”
Rouhani: 'The United States can impose neither negotiations nor
war on us'
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Rouhani insisted his nation does not deserve sanctions and
described the US as “a terrorist and interventionist outsider” before
referring to the 1953 US-backed coup that cemented the control of the shah in
Iran, which ultimately pushed the country toward its Islamic Revolution
and hostility with the West.
US sanctions and the coronavirus outbreak have pummeled
Iran's economy. In March, Tehran requested a $5 billion loan from the
International Monetary Fund, marking the first time since the 1979 Islamic
Revolution that Iran has sought such assistance.
Trump, in the middle of a contentious re-election race, has made
pressure on Iran a cornerstone of his Mideast foreign policy. He's also
increased US military presence in the Gulf.
“We are not a bargaining chip in US elections and domestic
policy,” Rouhani said in his last address to the UN assembly before
presidential elections slated for 2021.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP)
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