Lawfare Archive: Scott Anderson and Richard Gowan on the Disagreement in the Security Council on the Snapback of UN Sanctions on Iran
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🗓️ 1 June 2024
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From August 19, 2020: Late last week, the UN Security Council voted down a resolution, offered by the United States, to indefinitely extend a conventional arms embargo on Iran set to expire in October. The lifting of the arms embargo was one of the sweeteners that was part of the Obama administration's Iran nuclear agreement. Now, the Trump administration has announced it will begin the process of triggering the snapback of UN sanctions on Iran using procedures outlined in UNSCR 2231—a move that could be the death knell for the Iran nuclear agreement. Margaret Taylor sat down with Lawfare senior editor Scott Anderson and Richard Gowan, the UN director for the Crisis Group, an independent research and advocacy organization that recently released a report on the U.S. attempt to reimpose sanctions, to talk through the legal and political issues, as well as what will unfold on this matter in the weeks and months to come.
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| 1:19.8 | 2024. |
| 1:20.8 | On May 19th, Iranian President Ibrahim Reise was killed among other top Iranian officials in a |
| 1:26.1 | helicopter crash in northern Iran. |
| 1:28.6 | His death and the crash have sparked conversations about whether the United States sanctions |
| 1:32.4 | against Iran have contributed to its aviation |
| 1:34.8 | crisis, given its difficulty obtaining new aircrafts and aircraft equipment and parts. |
| 1:39.2 | For today's episode, I chose an episode from August 19th, 2020. |
| 1:44.0 | In the episode, Margaret Taylor sat down with Scott Anderson and Richard Gowan |
| 1:48.0 | to discuss a resolution proposed to the UN Security Council in 2020 by the United States, which was ultimately vetoed, |
| 1:54.9 | to indefinitely extend a conventional arms embargo on Iran. |
| 1:59.6 | They talked about why the Trump administration was snapping back the UN sanctions on Iran, the legal and political |
| 2:05.1 | issues on the matter, as well as what they predicted would unfold in the weeks and months |
| 2:09.3 | to come. I'm Margaret Taylor and this is the Law Fair Podcast August 19th, 2020. |
| 2:27.0 | Late last week, the UN Security Council voted down a resolution offered by the United States to indefinitely extend a conventional |
| 2:35.2 | arms embargo on Iran set to expire in October. The lifting of the arms embargo |
| 2:40.6 | was one of the sweeteners that was part of the Obama administration's |
| 2:43.8 | Iran nuclear agreement. |
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