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“We urge the Security Council to condemn the ongoing violations and crimes of the Zionist regime in the occupied Palestinian territories, and to force the lawless regime to strictly adhere to international regulations, including relevant United Nations resolutions,”  Amir Saeed Iravani told a UN Security Council meeting to discuss recent developments in al-Quds.

“It is regrettable that the Zionist regime’s blatant violations of human rights and international humanitarian principles in the occupied Palestinian territories, including systematic and brazen provocations as well as desecration of holy places, are met with the international community’s apathy,” Iravani stated.

He touched on the sensitivity of Muslims worldwide to any desecration of their holy places, saying that “if the international community, especially the Security Council, remains silent in the face of the Zionist regime’s ongoing violence, the regime will pluck up the courage to press ahead with its crimes and acts of aggression.”

The diplomat also dismissed Israeli envoy Gilad Erdan’s anti-Iranian allegations, emphasizing that such unfounded claims are meant to divert the world public opinion away from the continuing crimes and serious violations of international principles that the regime is perpetrating against the Palestinian nation.

Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour pushed for the Security Council on Thursday to take action against Israel over Ben-Gvir’s provocative actions.

“What red line does Israel need to cross for the Security Council to finally say, enough is enough?” Mansour asked the 15-member council, denouncing Israel for showing “absolute contempt”.

The al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which sits just above the Western Wall plaza, houses both the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque.

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Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Majid Takht-Ravanchi complained that the U.S. economic terrorism against the Iranian nation has hampered the import of medicines to the country.

“The current U.S. administration’s claim of policy change towards the JCPOA is just in words. In practice, the U.S. policy of maximum pressure still continues, preventing Iran from using its own financial resources abroad to import medicines,” he said, referring to the nuclear deal by the acronym of its official name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

“Although the ongoing talks in Vienna are the first step in assessing the accuracy of the true political will of the US to return to the JCPOA, the main and real test will be after verification, when it is proven that America has changed course, abandoned its failed policy of maximum pressure, and stopped its economic terrorism against Iran.”

The Islamic Republic refused to bow down to the pressure and adopted instead a “maximum resistance” policy, which includes economic measures to weather the bans as well as reducing Tehran’s compliance with the JCPOA.

The new U.S. administration, under President Joe Biden, says it wants to undo Trump’s wrongs and rejoin the deal, but it is showing an overriding propensity for maintaining some of the sanctions as a tool of pressure.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Takht-Ravanchi said, “The UN Security Council (UNSC) adopted a deadly silence in the early days of 2020, when the United States martyred regional counter-terrorism heroes, including General Soleimani, in a terrorist act at the direct order of its president. A few days later, the US president threatened to hit 52 sites, including Iran’s important cultural sites.”

“Of course, in the same year, when the United States presented a draft resolution to impose an arms embargo on Iran, 13 UNSC members categorically rejected it. Subsequently, when that country tried to trigger the snapback mechanism against Iran, the same 13 UNSC members dismissed the US move. They said that the US had lost any right to use the snapback mechanism by its withdrawal from the JCPOA and that the US illegitimate claim had no legal, political or practical effect,” he added.

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A climate which has been painted in these four years and a quarter between the two states means that the U.S. as flag-bearer of the West in the conflict with China sees inevitable its rivalry and hostility with this country. On the other hand, they consider insignificant the impact of these two countries on the common trend in running their overseas economies from the strategic aspect and they do not assess these impacts because of their international stands and their roles in legislating the international rules.

Of course what is obvious in the current climate of the world community is that Americans mostly fan the flames for creating tension and some sort of crisis. For example, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his recent remarks has assessed his country’s relations with China “increasingly adversarial” and in one of his interviews has said that he wants to deal with Beijing in any interaction or confrontation from a position of strength. Indeed, these types of remarks of the U.S. Secretary of the State are considered as a hidden reflection of the national security strategic guidance of the country that some part of it has been published and it has presented the U.S. approach as an anti-Asian one.

Although in this guidance it has been said that the U.S. in some fields like climate change, infectious disease, stability of world economy and also in the issues like North Korea and Iran can have close cooperation with China but verbally and in the remarks in the media, the U.S. is competing for a better position in the economic and political scenes with China and in operational field with India, and actually in Asia. On the sidelines of the effective reflection of competition and collaboration, there are also several disputable issues between Beijing and Washington which can lead to the increasing trend of adversary between the two states.

If we want to determine the priority in competition, cooperation and adversary in the ties between the U.S. and China, it should be said that currently competition comes first which is marching towards increasing adversary and the cooperation between them is in the lowest level of the priority. Of course the type of China’s behavior has been less in media spotlight and the country has shown more restraint and this does not mean that China has done nothing in direction of protecting its interest.

What is seen through a simple assessment is that China has supported the Philippines more openly in the past one year, has resisted against the adoption of UNSC’s resolutions against the Myanmar government and at the same time it has boosted its strategic relations with Pakistan and also recently signed or actually made public its 25-year cooperation agreement with Iran.

In fact, the Beijing government has resorted to the similar action taken by the U.S. in recruiting allies from the regional states for encountering China’s policies and it has started to recruit more strategic allies in competition with the U.S. in Asia. In such a condition, this strategy is shown by the American as a propagation strategy that the competition for supremacy has caused the hostility between the two countries to grow upward. So it should be said despite a new administration taking power in the U.S., the tension in relations of the both states not only has not decreased but also has been set on collision course and on more confrontation comparing to the time Trump was in office.

Therefore, it should be expected the ties between Tehran and Beijing to move in direction of more tension in the future and issues for cooperation between them like climate or infectious diseases will not let the strategic competition between the U.S. and China remain covered. Although China is currently moving on course of competing with the U.S. with a precautionary approach but one point should be mentioned that China government comparing to last year has to some extent come out of its precautionary mood in recruiting ally and it is objectively seeking providence in recruiting allies in encountering the U.S. policies.

What should be assessed as a futuristic analysis is that China due to its enormous forex reserves in the U.S. will not spearhead the production of hostility or at least in Biden’s four years in office will try not risk and adventurism in creating tension and will be more cautious than the U.S. in regulating precautionary criteria. Perhaps this precautionary policy has forced the U.S. to take initiative in propaganda war.

One should see how much the soft trend and turtle move of China in the West Asia would restrict the Western policies and especially the U.S., and it will be faced with more diligent action of the White House.

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The reliable British magazine “The Economist” was founded in 1843 by British businessman James Wilson.

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The circulation of this magazine whose readers are mostly educated people, managers and policy-makers has today reached around 1.5 million copies. The stand of this publication since the first day has always been to support the classical school in the liberal economy, and regarding Iran, it pursues important and moderate views.

Recently and after the White House announced imposition of its new sanctions on 18 banks of the Islamic Republic of Iran, this magazine published an interesting article. The economic information desk of The Economist in its article and report on the U.S.s news sanctions on 18 Iranian banks wrote, “We do not expect the new U.S. sanctions and restrictions against Iran to have significant growing impact on Iran’s trade and economy. Accordingly, we do not change our forecast of minus 0.2 percent economic growth for Iran in 2020. This exactly means that the White House, as the old saying goes, did not look before its leap”.

The Economist says President Donald Trump by imposing the new sanctions has tried to peg his power in the foreign policy scene. The report also reads, “Donald Trump by imposing these sanctions have tried to display his power in the foreign policy scene on the eve of the U.S. presidential elections. He and anti-Iranian hawkish men present in his government are all infuriated that their efforts in September to trigger the snapback and extension of the U.N. arms embargo against Iran failed and other signatories of the JCPOA and UNSC members defied this request of the U.S.”

Both inside Iran and overseas almost all experts who write on Iran or express their opinions believe, “The massive sanctions and the outbreak of the Coronavirus are two main factors which have caused Iran’s minus 0.2 percent economic growth in the current year. The reason, that the new U.S. sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s banks have been faced, on one point, with open defiance of other countries and, on the other hand, they have faced with harsh criticisms due to negative effects on the humanitarian exchanges, is that these sanctions have not been any deterrent factor and the White House and Trump have turned into the laughingstock for the international financial bodies, and even Trump is getting to the point that he loads his gun with the blank, with this notion that he can frighten Iran by triggering it.

The world witnesses this truth that Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has recently pointed to the U.S. inhuman efforts for blocking the limited access of Iran to the medicines and food, and his stand has faced with considerable sympathies in the international level regardless of how the Coronavirus pandemic has had its effects on the lives of people, and health and medical condition in Iran.

The Economist continues, “Besides these points, the abundant anti-Iran sanctions have made traders and foreign banks be reluctant in doing even licensed businesses with Iran and the country’s no-oil trade for export to those countries has declined in the past two years. So, the recent imposed sanctions against Iran’s banking system will be ineffective or have the least effect.”

The British publication further says, “18 Iranian banks are the new targets of the news U.S. sanctions and they are only authorized to have financial exchanges for food and other humanitarian items. Depriving Iran’s government of having access to the financial resources for developing nuclear and missile program, proliferating terrorism and support of terrorist networks are the claimed goals for imposing these sanctions. But in fact, small part of Iran’s international trade is done through official financial avenues. Let’s skip this point. Iran’s financial system was deprived of using international financial exchange system, known as SWIFT, based on the dollar. In this February. Iran has returned to the blacklist of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF); and it has warned of any financial exchange with Iran. But it has been ineffective because not only has the country not been isolated but also it has planned new ways for its survival in the economy.”

The Economist by elaborating these points concludes, “The new U.S. sanctions against 18 Iranian banks have no special effect or so-called crippling effect on Iran’s economy and trade, and in fact Mr. Trump, by imposing these sanctions on the eve of his presidential campaign, has tried to flaunt his undefeated capability in his foreign policy scene.”

 By: Hamid Reza Naghashian

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