While the global political system can no
longer be described as essentially unilateral characterising the
post-cold-war era of the 1990s and early 2000s, unilateralism
nonetheless continues to characterise US behaviour whereby it
unilaterally withdraws from multilateral treaties and/or agreements and
unilaterally threatens to “obliterate”
an entire country i.e, Iran. If the global political system is to truly
become multipolar, this unilateralism cannot be warranted. This is
precisely what Russia’s top-most political brass had in mind when they
went for the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, where Russian Vladimir Putin
held a meeting with the US president Donald Trump and discussed issues,
ranging from bi-lateral ties and global strategic situation to Syria,
Afghanistan, and most importantly, Iran. While it is not yet clear what
exactly went in that meeting, it is by far crystal-clear what Putin must
have told Trump about Iran. Russian officials had, as a matter of fact,
revealed their position in a few interviews before the start of the
summit in Japan.
For instance, in an interview,
Russian Permanent Representative to International Organisations in
Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov called US policies a direct blackmailing saying
that “by the means of blackmailing and intimidation, Washington is
chasing large foreign companies, and not large alone, away from the
Iranian market.”
Ulyanov sounded in favour of Iran when
he said that Iran’s decision to stop implementing provisions of JCPOA
was in accordance with the agreement’s own provisions and that it had
every right to do if other parties were failing to fulfil their
obligations. Of course, Ulyanov also called on Iran not to invoke those
provisions and continue to abide by the agreement. This, of course, does
not mean that Russian endorses US “blackmailing” of Iran. Russian
president has already announced that they are ready to help Iran export
its crude and ease restrictions on its banking system if Europe fails to
launch its dollar-evading SPV, Instex (Instrument in Support of Trade
Exchanges) with Tehran...........https://journal-neo.org/2019/06/30/g-20-russia-iran-and-the-bid-to-end-u-s-unilateralism/
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