Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the failure of the United States to pass a resolution against Iran in the Security Council is a historic and humiliating loss for Washington, considering that this step shows the strength of the nuclear agreement, which was able to stand in front of the US administration and bear it defeat.
He added that countries did not vote on this resolution because they realize that preserving the nuclear agreement is important and necessary to ensure the security of the region and the world.
In a vote by the UN Security Council on the US effort on Friday, China and Russia rejected the proposal, and 11 countries, including France, Germany and Britain, abstained, and only the United States and the Dominican Republic supported the extension of the ban.
"For the first time, the United States submits a draft resolution to the Security Council and only gets the support of one country, which is a small island," Rouhani said in a televised speech.
Failure and threatening
"With the failure of the American draft resolution against Iran in the Security Council, the Islamic Republic of Iran will have achieved another great success," he said.
Commenting on these developments, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today, Saturday, that failure to extend the arms embargo on Iran is a grave mistake. He added - at a press conference during a visit to Poland - "It is a serious mistake ... we regret that."
The arms embargo imposed on Iran is scheduled to end next October under the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers, which lifted many of the international sanctions imposed on Tehran, in exchange for imposing restrictions on its nuclear program. The United States withdrew from the deal in 2018.
The United States can now implement a threat to reimpose all UN sanctions on Iran using a clause in the nuclear deal.
Diplomats say the United States may do so this week, but face a fierce battle.