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Russia: U.S. call for U.N. emergency session on Iran is 'destructive'

By Denis Pinchuk

 

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto (not in picture) meets Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov at the President's Official Residence Mantyniemi, Helsinki, Finland September 12, 2017. Lehtikuva/Martti Kainulainen/via REUTERS

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia considers a U.S. proposal for an extraordinary meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the turmoil in Iran "harmful and destructive", RIA news agency cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Thursday.

 

"We see no role for the United Nations Security Council in this issue," he said, according to the agency. "Iran's domestic affairs have nothing to do with the United Nations Security Council's role."

 

On Thursday, the Kazakh delegation to the UN said the Security Council will meet on Friday at 3 p.m. (2000 GMT) to discuss Iran. Kazakhstan is the Security Council president through January.

 

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said this week that Washington was seeking emergency sessions on Iran at the United Nations in New York and at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. The U.S. delegation said on Thursday it had requested the Friday meeting.

 

Anti-government protests have swept Iranian cities and towns over the past week and 21 people have been killed in the unrest.

 

Commenting on the possibility of new U.S. sanctions on Iran, Ryabkov said such methods were "illegitimate".

 

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert had suggested the U.S. government could impose sanctions against Iranian officials who repress peaceful protests.

 

Ryabkov said earlier on Thursday that the United States should not interfere in Iran's domestic affairs, and that Moscow remained committed to the 2015 international deal to curtail Tehran's nuclear programme, which U.S. President Donald Trump has challenged.

 

(Additional reporting by Rodrigo Campos at the United Nations; Writing by Denis Pinchuk; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Susan Thomas)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-01-05

[chilli42]

The US (Trump) has completely lost the plot.  I have no idea why the US has such a stiffy for Iran but this situation is no more US business than it would be Iran’s business to involve the UN all the crazy racial unrest in the US.  How simple minded do they judge the rest of the world to be .... OK aside from those who participated in the Iraq invasion.

[BuaBS]

US (CIA) is just following the Libya/Syria playbook again to get the Iran too . Russia is right but it can veto some measures that are taken against Iran in the UN.

[Srikcir]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

"Iran's domestic affairs have nothing to do with the United Nations Security Council's role."

Thus far, correct.

Furthermore the practicality of events are that:

• "If the Iranian regime does change in the future, it will presumably result from internal processes and not external intervention. 
• "even the Iranian opposition is not in favor of regime change by means of the extreme violence, destruction, and suffering that have plagued Syria.
• "it is doubtful whether opposition elements will want to provide the US administration with substantial assistance against the regime, as doing so would mean tainting themselves as American collaborators."

http://www.inss.org.il/publication/united-states-policy-regime-change-iran/

Trump's aggressive rhetoric against the Iranian regime stands to do more harm than good for the protesting Iranian people.