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July 1, 2020

The U.S. Has the Legal Tools to Maintain the Arms Embargo on Iran—if It’s Willing to Use Them

Snapback.

At a virtual meeting of the UN Security Council yesterday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the council’s members to extend a conventional-arms embargo on the Islamic Republic, set to expire this fall. His words were met with threats to veto any attempt to do so—not just from Russia and China, but from the United Kingdom as well. But what Pompeo failed to do, writes Benny Avni, is to threaten to use the “snapback” clause in the 2015 nuclear agreement, which any party can invoke unilaterally:

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July 1, 2020

  1. The U.S. Has the Legal Tools to Maintain the Arms Embargo on Iran—if It’s Willing to Use Them

    Snapback.

  2. The UK Labor Party Censures Those Who Blame Israel for the Abuses of American Police, but the “New York Times” Hires Them

    One institution improves as the other declines.

  3. The South African Chief Justice Who Praised Israel and Sparked the Ire of His Own Government

    Mogoeng Mogoeng.

  4. The Hebrew Bible Never Speaks of Religion, Belief, or Even Law

    Evidence that Judaism can’t be reduced to intellectual abstractions.

  5. Two Rare Discoveries Are Evidence of the Original Return to Zion

    Fake writing and filling an archaeological “black hole.”