U.S. cannot initiate process of reinstating UN sanctions: China

TEHRAN – Chinese Mission to UN said in a tweet on Wednesday that the United States cannot initiate process of reinstating UN sanctions on Iran under the 2231 resolution which endorses the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.

Iran urges world to pressure Israel to join NPT

TEHRAN — Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Es’haq Al-e Habib has urged the international community to pressure Israel into joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Weakening UN can reignite flames of war, violence in world: ambassador

TEHRAN — Iranian Ambassador to Paris Bahram Qassemi has said undermining international bodies such as the United Nations can reignite the flames of war and violence in different parts of the world.

13 Security Council members oppose U.S. bid to return UN bans on Iran

TEHRAN — Thirteen countries out of the 15-member UN Security Council have expressed their opposition to the U.S. bid to reimpose the UN sanctions on Iran, arguing that Washington’s move is void given it is using a process under a nuclear deal that it quit more than two years ago.

Tehran advises Washington to take lesson from its failures

TEHRAN — Making a reference to the United States failure at the UN Security Council to extend an arms embargo on Iran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says Washington should take a lesson from its total failures.

Iran calls on Security Council to reject U.S. ‘ill-intentioned’ move

TEHRAN — Iran’s permanent mission to the UN has called on the UN Security Council to stand up to an “ill-intentioned” move by the U.S. government to extend an arms embargo on Tehran.

By staff and agency

Trump risks crisis at UN by trying to use Iran deal he shredded: Bloomberg

In an article published by Bloomberg on Tuesday, it is said that two years after quitting the 2015 nuclear deal, Donald Trump’s administration is risking a crisis at the United Nations by threatening to reimpose international sanctions on Iran that were eased under the agreement.

UN envoy slams U.S. for sponsoring anti-Iran Tondar terrorist group

TEHRAN - Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, has slammed the United States for sponsoring a U.S.-based anti-Iran group named Tondar.

UN set to roundly reject U.S. resolution on Iran: diplomats

TEHRAN – The United Nations Security Council is set to roundly reject a U.S. resolution to extend an arms embargo on Iran, according to UN diplomats.

U.S. circulates resolution on Iran arms embargo at UN: Bloomberg

TEHRAN — The United States has circulated a new resolution to the UN Security Council members, calling for an extension of the UN arms embargo on Iran.

Takht-Ravanchi censures Washington’s sanctions on Syria as ‘shameful’

All forces present in Syria without permission must leave, Iran’s UN envoy says

TEHRAN – All foreign forces who have entered Syria with the permission of the Damascus government must leave the country, the Iranian ambassador to the UN said on Thursday. 

Iran denounces Bloomberg article for promoting violence, terrorism

TEHRAN — Iran’s UN Mission has denounced a Bloomberg article for encouraging violence, terror and sabotage against Iran, saying the article promotes violence and terrorism.

By Hamid Bayati

Arms embargo is just a pretext for U.S. to build political support to return UN sanctions on Iran

Daryl G. Kimball, the executive director at U.S. Arms Control Association, tells the Tehran Times that a move by the Trump administration to extend arms embargo is just “a pretext for building sufficient political support for snapping back UN sanctions under the terms of UNSCR 2231.”

Countless Bosnians lost lives as Western powers failed to act fast: Sarajevo University professor

TEHRAN - Joseph J. Kaminski, an assistant professor at the International University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, tells the Tehran Times that failure of Western powers and the United Nations-led to loss of “countless lives” in the Bosnian War.

By Marko Milanovic

Srebrenica massacre; Failure of the UN and the World’s most powerful states

What is certainly true is that the international community, including the UN and the world’s most powerful states, failed the people of Bosnia and the inhabitants of Srebrenica specifically.

By Professor Otto Spijkers

25 years later: Questions of legal responsibility for Srebrenica 

On July 11, 2020, exactly 25 years have passed since the genocide in Srebrenica happened. In 1995, Bosnian Serb soldiers killed more than eight thousand Bosnian Muslim men in just a few days, while a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force of Dutch soldiers was there to protect these men. This makes the Srebrenica genocide also a dark page in Dutch history.

By M.A. Saki

Srebrenica is a ‘big black spot’ in UN history: ambassador  

TEHRAN – The ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Iran blames the United Nations for failing to prevent the massacre in Srebrenica in July 1995, telling the Tehran Times that the tragedy “is a big black spot in the history of the United Nations Organization” that took place “in the heart of Europe”.

Russia says U.S. will never succeed in extending Iran arms embargo

TEHRAN — Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, said on Thursday that the U.S. draft resolution on extending the United Nations’ arms embargo on Iran has no chance of succeeding.

UN arms embargo: Last chance for E3 to save Iran nuclear deal

Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei has warned France, Germany, and the UK against extending the UN arms embargo on Iran, signaling that doing so could spell the end of the Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Ambassador calls on UN chief to pursue case of abducted Iranian diplomats

TEHRAN — Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, on Monday called on United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to help find four Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982.

By Andrew Korybko, Moscow-based American political analyst

The UN: 75 years of false expectations and failure

The disunited nations The 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations (UN) presents a symbolic moment to reflect on what a failure the organization has been. Its establishment created false expectations among the international community that all nations will finally be treated equally irrespective of their size, but in reality, the UN is dominated by the five most important victors of the Second World War that sit on its Security Council (UNSC) and were also coincidentally or not the first five countries to obtain nuclear weapons.

“The UN has not been able to stop even a single struggle in the non-European or non-Euro-Atlantic context”

Basic idea of UN is euro-centric, says Iranian sociologist

TEHRAN - The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization whose mission is to establish peace and security in the world. This is what stated in the preamble to its charter and its first article. Since its establishment, expectations were high on the UN's pivotal role in maintaining global stability and security by adopting a holistic vision towards international conflicts.

By Marvin Zonis

The United Nations in West Asia

When one contemplates the role of the UN in West Asia, one thinks immediately of its role in the ongoing and intractable conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. In what their many decades-long conflict over control of land and their ability to govern that land, the UN has failed to bring any resolution of that conflict.