UN Security Council to Vote on Iran-P5+1 Plan of Action

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The UN Security Council [UNSC] was due to vote on a draft resolution that would turn into international law the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.

The vote on the draft UN resolution, which will set the stage for the lifting of Security Council sanctions against Iran, is scheduled to take place at 9:00 a.m. New York time [1300 GMT] on Monday.

The text of the draft UN resolution calls for the "full implementation" of the Vienna agreement "on the timetable established," and urges UN member countries to facilitate the process.

In fact, Iran and the P5+1 finalized the text of the JCPOA in the Austrian capital city of Vienna on July 14 after 18 days of intense negotiations and all-nighters that capped around 23 months of talks between Iran and the P5+1 - the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany.

Nonetheless, after being passed, the resolution would officially endorse the JCPOA, under which limits are put on Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for a set of commitments by the P5+1, including the removal of all economic and financial bans against the Islamic Republic.

The UNSC vote is generally considered a formality, as all the five permanent members of the Council were partners to the negotiations with Iran and the JCPOA.

Meanwhile, hawkish "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again angrily reacted to the agreement between Iran and the P5+1.

In an interview with CBS on Sunday, he repeated his hackneyed mantra. "I think this is a very bad deal... It's not good for anyone's security."

However, even American officials had dismissed Netanyahu's repetitive remarks about the JCPOA, sparing less and less attention to the comments as time goes by.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team