Washington 0
19 February 2021

A U.S. diplomatic spokesperson asserted that “regardless of the UN’s Iran sanctions architecture, we will continue to use our authorities to dissuade countries from providing arms to Iran. So there is certainly no change in our posture there at all”. “Reversing our snapback position”, he added, “strengthens our ability to engage with the Security Council on Iran, given that no other Security Council member agreed that snapback had occurred... we are on the same page with our close allies and our close partners”.

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