UN Security Council rejects China-Russia resolution extending Iran nuclear sanctions relief before deadline
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The United Nations on Friday failed to adopt a resolution brought by China and Russia that would have extended sanctions relief for Iran for another six months under the nuclear deal.

The vote was 4 to 9, with Algeria, China, Pakistan and Russia in favor and Denmark, France, Greece, Panama, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Somalia, the United Kingdom and the United States against.

Guyana and South Korea abstained.

The vote came after Britain, France and Germany triggered the deal’s “snapback” measure, which reinstates sanctions on Iran following stalled talks on its nuclear program.

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, had also been meeting with his French, German and British counterparts in the lead-up to the U.N. vote. 

A European diplomat told The Associated Press the meeting “did not produce any new developments, any new results.”

On Tuesday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, also said Iran would not “surrender to pressure” and that negotiations with the U.S. would be a “dead end.” 

President of Iran walking

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, center, walks on his way to a bilateral meeting with France’s President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City Wednesday. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)

In an interview on Friday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called the decision “unfair, unjust and illegal.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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