UN Resolution 2231

The US Envoy for Iran Leaves Just as the US Pushes for a UN Vote on Its Weapons Ban

• August 6, 2020

Only days before the United States said it would submit a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council to extend an Iran arms embargo, the American envoy for Iran has resigned. Brian Hook, who also held the post as senior policy adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, was described by his boss as …

Disarmament, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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P5 MONITOR

The Sanctions War Heats Up: US vs. the World

Enrico Carisch

• May 22, 2018

Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as Donald Trump’s new secretary of state, threatened United States’ allies: “You should know that we will hold those doing prohibited business in Iran to account.” Pompeo, speaking at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., on May 21, is actually pitting the US against the United Nations, …

Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, P5 Monitor, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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P5 MONITOR

Europe to Trump: We Are Not Giving Up on the Iran Nuclear Deal

Enrico Carisch

• April 5, 2018

While the Trump administration stocks up on Iran hawks like John Bolton, the new national security adviser, and Mike Pompeo as secretary of state, an impending collapse of the Iran nuclear deal could rapidly turn into a new global reality: further isolation of the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel as the rest of …

P5 Monitor, Security Council

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GEOPOLITICS

Loose Missiles, Loose Talk: Nikki Haley’s Claims of Iran’s ‘Lawless Behavior’

Enrico Carisch

• December 16, 2017

Why are the United States Department of Defense and the US ambassador to the United Nations acting as spokespeople for Saudi Arabia’s atrocious war against the religious Yemeni-Houthi minority? And why is Ambassador Nikki Haley throwing herself in front of the international community with laughable evidence to claim, among other statements: “The Iranian regime …