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JimLur, Trump’s sanctions against Iran are a clear breach of international law

"UN Facing Worst Nightmare: Trump to Personally Chair UN Security Council Meeting"
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The announcement that Trump will chair a meeting of the Security Council came from Haley herself, and while she noted that Trump would not be
seeking any specific resolutions or official statements from the body, he intended to focus the discussion on the topic of Iran and their numerous
“violations of international law” in regard to their interventionist policies in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and other regional nations.

Rather than a nightmare i'd suggest Trump's actually doing what Haley says he intends to do would be more like a wet-dream for Iran.

Gholamali Khoshroo

The community of nations has a duty to stand up to lawlessness and contempt for agreed norms, says Tehran’s ambassador to the UN

Thu 9 Aug 2018 03.27 AEST
Last modified on Thu 9 Aug 2018 20.18 AEST


The Trump administration’s abdication of the eal is a tragedy of multilateral diplomacy
and will leave a deep scar. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

For the first time in the history of the UN, the United States – a permanent member of the security council with veto power – is engaging in penalising nations across the entire world; not for violating a security council resolution, rather, for abiding by it. The resolution in question, UN security council resolution 2231 .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/03/trump-administration-iran-sanctions , was authored (including by the US itself) and passed unanimously by the council.

After more than a year of holding the joint comprehensive plan of action .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/iran-nuclear-deal-full-text-of-joint-comprehensive-plan-of-action .. (JCPOA – known also as the Iran deal) to ransom and demanding Iran make a spade of unilateral nuclear and non-nuclear concessions, ultimately, on 8 May 2018, the Trump administration withdrew from the JCPOA .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/may/08/iran-nuclear-deal-donald-trump-latest-live-updates . Simultaneously, Trump signed a presidential memorandum to reimpose all US sanctions lifted or waived in connection with the Iran deal. As a result, the agreement that was the culmination of more than a decade of negotiations and was endorsed by security council resolution 2231 now faces an existential moment, especially as the first set of US sanctions come into effect this week.

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Trump's rhetoric on Iran [.. inside .. ]

Security council resolution 2231 underlines “promoting and facilitating the development of normal economic and trade contacts and cooperation with Iran” as an essential part of the JCPOA and calls upon all member states to support its implementation, including to ensure Iran’s access in areas of trade, technology, finance and energy, and refrain from actions that undermine it. As part of the JCPOA itself, the US alongside other JCPOA participants, undertook to refrain from any policy intended to directly and adversely affect the normalisation of trade and economic relations with Iran. The Trump administration .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration .. is nonetheless now targeting countries across the world for actually re-engaging Iran economically in accordance with their obligations under security council resolution 2231.

The US withdrawal from JCPOA and reimposition of its sanctions is a serious breach of its legal obligations under the UN charter, which entails its international responsibility. The international community must act in the face of this international intimidation and affront towards the international legal order.

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What the Trump administration has done, through threatening economic revenge against the countries that continue their economic ties with Iran, is to weaponise its economy. It is a clear rejection of diplomacy and multilateralism; a clear call for confrontation rather than cooperation; an open invitation to resorting to logic of force instead of force of logic. Such reckless and menacing behaviour by the Trump administration renders it responsible for the ensuing adverse consequences, and it must be held accountable for such blatant material breach of its obligations under the JCPOA; for the consequences of its wrongful acts that fly in the face of the UN charter and international law; and for the damages and irreparable harm it has caused to Iran and its international business relations.

While the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/iaea .. has confirmed Iranian compliance in now close to a dozen periodic reports, the US’s performance has been abysmal from before the withdrawal and persistently in blatant violation of the letter, spirit and intent of the JCPOA almost from its inception. The US government’s agencies and instrumentalities actively and consistently were deterring and discouraging businesses from engagement with Iran.

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The Trump administration’s abdication of the deal is a tragedy for multilateral diplomacy and will leave a deep scar on the credibility of such needed diplomatic ventures for some time to come. The spectre of extreme unilateralism, terminal intransigence and the unwinding of vital global institutions is a threat not just to my country, but to every nation. It may be tempting to hope for the proverbial passing of the storm, but at this point in time that is clearly no longer a sustainable approach. It is our true belief that each and every member of the community of nations has a duty to stand up to lawlessness and contempt for the rule of law in international relations; in particular, by refusing to give effect to irresponsible acts and by holding any law-breaking party accountable for the consequences of its acts.

• Gholamali Khoshroo is Iran’s ambassador to the UN

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/08/donald-trump-sanctions-iran-international-law

If you say that's only an Iranian view you would be right. Fact is though that Iranian view is on
the mark, and in that you have one clear violation of international law by the Trump administration.

That's not the only one.

Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy Violates International Law

June 10, 2018 / Jillian Blake

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Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (“Convention” or “CRC”) .. http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx .. mandates that states employ a “best interest of the child” standard in actions that effect children. Several provisions within the Convention specifically address the rights of children to be with their parents and family including Article 7 (the right to know and be cared for by one’s parent) and Article 8 (the right to family relations without interference).

Article 9 of the Convention specifically bans separation of parents from children except in limited circumstances (when it is necessary to ensure the best interest of the child). Under the Convention:

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State Parties shall ensure that a child shall not be separated from his or her parents against their will, except when competent authorities subject to judicial review determine, in accordance with applicable law and procedures, that such separation is necessary for the best interests of the child. Such determination may be necessary in a particular case such as one involving abuse or neglect of the child by the parents, or one where the parents are living separately and a decision must be made as to the child’s place of residence
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Under Article 9 of the CRC, when states do separate children from their parents they must allow children to “maintain personal relations and direct contact with both parents on a regular basis…” and must also keep children informed of their parents’ whereabouts.

The U.S. signed the CRC in February 1995 but has never ratified the Convention. Currently 196 states are party to the Convention and the United States is the only U.N. state that is not party .. https://www.aclu.org/blog/human-rights/treaty-ratification/theres-only-one-country-hasnt-ratified-convention-childrens . Nonetheless, under Article 18 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) as a signatory to the CRC the U.S. must “refrain from acts which would defeat the object and purpose of [the] treaty.” Furthermore, as a treaty that has been signed by every country in the world, at least some provisions within the Convention could be found to have reached the status of customary international law, and therefore also be binding on the United States.

https://ilg2.org/2018/06/10/trump-administrations-family-separation-policy-violates-international-law/

Then there is Jerusalem.

13 violations of international law in the Trump resolution on Jerusalem

mohammedfila (30) in news • 9 months ago

https://steemit.com/news/@mohammedfila/13-violations-of-international-law-in-the-trump-resolution-on-jerusalem












Remember Trump's crap about how he was so keen to be interviewed by Mueller? What are the odds that Trump actually takes that U.N. chair.