UNSC backs Iran deal: Would Iran succeed in removing the Western concerns?
The U.N. Security Council on Monday backed Iran’s nuclear agreement with world powers but the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards attacked the resolution, underlining powerful opposition to the deal. U.S. President Barack Obama hailed the United Nations endorsement, saying it showed last week’s accord commanded broad international support as the best way of ensuring Iran never gets nuclear weapons. The European Union also approved the deal, which curbs Iran’s nuclear program in return for easing economic sanctions, while Germany rapidly moved to revive its once close trading relationship with Tehran.At the United Nations, the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that was negotiated as part of the agreement reached in Vienna between Iran and the six powers. In return for lifting the U.S., EU and U.N. sanctions that have crippled its economy, Iran must accept long-term limits on the nuclear program that the West suspected was aimed at creating an atomic bomb, but which Tehran says is peaceful.A ban on the supply of ballistic missile technology to Iran will remain in place for eight years, an arms embargo for five years, and restrictions on nuclear technology for a decade, according to the draft resolution. It also calls on countries to monitor the Iran deal by inspecting all cargo to and from Iran if they suspect it contains items that violate the nuclear deal. According to the Vienna deal, the six world powers, Iran and the European Union will form a joint commission to handle any complaints about breaches. The UNSC would have a fresh resolution placed before it to address any such complaint. If such a resolution has not been adopted within 30 days of the UNSC receiving the complaint of a breach, the sanctions contained in all previous UN resolutions would be reimposed automatically. Furthermore, if the previous sanctions were reimposed, they would not apply retroactively to contracts Iran signed.If the nuclear deal were adhered to, all the provisions and measures of the UN resolution would terminate in a decade. However, the six world powers and the EU wrote to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday to inform him that after 10 years they plan to seek a five-year extension of the mechanism allowing sanctions to be re-employed. This agreement would open new avenues for South Asian countries specially Pakistan.
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