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June 03, 2021, 04:50 PM
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AP Photo/Jason DeCrowIranian President Hassan Rouhani sits before addressing the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, September 20, 2017.
Zarif blames ‘inability to fulfil its financial obligation’ on US sanctions
Iran on Thursday slammed the United Nations’ decision to suspend its voting rights for failing to pay its dues as “fundamentally flawed, entirely unacceptable and completely unjustified”.
Tehran argues that the $16.2 million it owes to the UN is the result of Washington’s crippling sanctions, imposed after former president Donald Trump in 2018 unilaterally withdrew the US from a nuclear deal with Iran.
Iran’s voting rights at the UN General Assembly were suspended in January under rules for countries whose arrears are equal to or exceed their contributions due for the past two years.
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed his “strong dismay” at the loss of voting rights, in a letter sent Thursday to UN chief Antonio Guterres.
“Iran’s inability to fulfil its financial obligation toward the United Nations is directly caused by ‘unlawful unilateral sanctions’ imposed by the United States,” Zarif wrote, according to the letter posted on his Twitter account.
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