Haley lists Iranian bad conduct at UN meeting targeting Israel

Voice of America:

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley lashed out Wednesday at Iran for what she called a “laundry list” of bad behavior, and she criticized the U.N. Security Council for not holding Tehran accountable.

“Every six months the Security Council is presented with a laundry list of bad news but only somehow manages to only hear the good news,” Haley said, referring to the twice-annual report the U.N. secretary-general sends to the council on implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal.

Haley spoke at a monthly council meeting that primarily reviews the Israeli-Palestinian situation.
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“Judging Iran by the narrow confines of the nuclear deal misses the true nature of the threat,” Haley said. “Iran must be judged in totality of its aggressive, destabilizing and unlawful behavior — to do otherwise would be foolish,” she said.

She called Iran out for its support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and its supply of weapons to Shi’ite Houthi rebels in Yemen and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

Even more troubling, she said, is Iran’s ballistic missile activity.

In July, Tehran launched a space launch vehicle that the United States, Britain, France and Germany — all parties to the nuclear deal — said was “inconsistent” with the U.N. resolution endorsing the agreement. The allies characterized it as a “threatening and provocative step” in a letter to the U.N. secretary-general.

Under the resolution, the international community “calls upon” Iran not to undertake any ballistic-missile-related activity that could carry nuclear warheads, including launches using such ballistic missile technology.

“Iran hides behind its assertion of technical compliance with the nuclear deal while it brazenly violates the other limits on its behavior,” Haley said. “And we have allowed them to get away with it. This must stop.”
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Iran seems to get the benefit of the doubt from the deal's supporters who take a head in the sand approach to its bad conduct.

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