Does Russia really want a US return to the Iran deal?
IranSource
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Arman Mahmoudian and Giorgio Cafiero
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right) met with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif (left) in Moscow, Russia on June 16, 2020. Russia will strongly oppose attempts to manipulate the UN Security Council to following the events related to the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA), according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
In September 2020, Moscow’s foreign ministry dismissed the United States’ threat to restore United Nations (UN) sanctions (unless the Security Council extended a ban on conventional arms trade with Tehran) as an effort to transform the council into a tool of the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign.