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 community to deepen further iranian foreign ministry spokesperson abbas musavi tweeted the u.s has never been so isolated the u.s administration clearly disagrees it announced on friday that it had confiscated iranian fuel shipments bound for venezuela with the assistance of foreign partners we have four tankers they're going to houston and uh they're there uh we they're not supposed to be doing that iran's not supposed to be doing that and uh so we did we seized the tankers and were moving them and moved to houston u.s officials say no military force was used in the seizures and they instead threatened the ship owners insurers and captains with sanctions to force them to hand over their cargo iran's ambassador to venezuela rejected the claim as another netherline and psychological warfare by the united states both tehran and caracas are under u.s sanctions iran sent five tankers delivering fuel to venezuela back in may