{"id":25853,"date":"2015-10-15T17:39:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=25853"},"modified":"2015-10-15T17:39:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:39:53","slug":"us-falsely-claims-iran-missile-test-a-violation-of-un-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/us-falsely-claims-iran-missile-test-a-violation-of-un-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"US Falsely Claims Iran Missile Test a &#8216;Violation&#8217; of UN Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a day after Iran&#8217;s Guardian Council approved the P5+1 nuclear deal, the US is already showing extremely bad faith, with Ambassador Samantha Power <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/10\/samantha-power-iran-violating-un-resolutions-214787\">claiming Iran had violated a UN resolution <\/a>with a recent missile test. <\/p>\n<p>The resolution in question is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1929\">1929<\/a>, which was itself created in response to the already resolved nuclear issue. The resolution forbids Iran from developing ballistic missiles for delivering nuclear warheads. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/12\/politics\/iran-missile-test-likely-violated-u-n-resolution\/\">US is falsely treating this as a ban<\/a> on all ballistic missile improvements, even though the missile Iran tested is simply an improved version of the Shahab-3 missile, with better accuracy, and is not designed for nuclear arms. <\/p>\n<p>1929 is a part of a set of sanctions and bans that was already clearly on the way out after the ratification of the P5+1 nuclear deal, and clearly wasn&#8217;t intended to forbid Iran from making improvements to its own conventional military arsenal in the first place. The US allegation, then, is doubly problematic, and a bad first sign on how the US is going to treat the post-deal situation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a day after Iran&#8217;s Guardian Council approved the P5+1 nuclear deal, the US is already showing extremely bad faith, with Ambassador Samantha Power claiming Iran had violated a UN resolution with a recent missile test. The resolution in question is 1929, which was itself created in response to the already resolved nuclear issue. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25854,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853\/revisions\/25854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25853"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}