UNSC rejects U.S. bid to extend ban beyond October
united states this time at the un security council washington suffered a defeat on friday when the council rejected its bid for extending a conventional arms embargo on iran russia and china voted against the resolution and 11 members abstained the dominican republic was the only country that supported the u.s secretary of state mike pompeo slammed the council's decision as inexcusable we we can't allow the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism to buy and sell weapons i mean it's just nuts washington did not get his way this round but the fight is far from over earlier pompeo indicated that if the vote failed the u.s would move to triggered snapback mechanism or a resumption of crippling u.n sections on tehran that were in place before the nuclear deal was struck however iran says the u.s lost that right which left the nuclear deal two years ago the failure of friday's vote sets the stage for the rift between the united states and the international comm...