Iran warns against ‘dangerous’ US defiance of intl. law as it eyes illegal ban on Tehran

Iran has warned against Washington’s “precarious” defiance of international law as the US has signaled that it seeks to illegally extend an expiring arms embargo on Iran. Nabi Azadi, the political adviser to Iran's Permanent Mission to Geneva, made the comments in response to earlier remarks by Washington’s representative to the Geneva Disarmament Conference Robert Wood on Thursday. The American envoy blamed Iran of backing terrorism and said that Washington seeks to extend a United Nations ban on Tehran despite its expiration in October under UN Security Council resolution 2231, which endorsed the Iran nuclear deal in 2015. Azadi rejected the statements,...