Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violence left the Ayatullah's government further isolated in world opinion. At the U.N., sentiment grew for a Security Council move to embargo arms shipments to Iran. Speaking to the U.N. General Assembly shortly before the Iran Ajr was seized, President Reagan declared that the council "has no choice" but to take action if Iran refused to accept a cease-fire in the gulf war. Yet the U.S. was having trouble persuading the Soviets to endorse the embargo; a Soviet veto could kill the proposal...
After Iranian President Khamenei denied before the U.N. that the Ajr had been laying mines, U.S. diplomats briefly hoped that the 15-member Security Council would be emboldened into a unanimous vote for an arms embargo against Iran. But Khamenei had scoffed at the U.N. as a "paper factory for issuing worthless and ineffective orders," and the futility of the sanctions effort seemed to prove his point. Last July the council unanimously called for a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war, which Iraq declared it would accept. But Iran stalled, refusing to clarify its intentions even when visited...
Since any one of the five permanent members of the council (the U.S., Britain, France, the Soviet Union and China) can veto a resolution, an embargo rested heavily on Moscow and Peking. The Chinese, whom U.S. officials charged with regularly selling arms to Iran, have been cool to an embargo. In a U.N. address that was generally easy on the U.S., Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sidestepped the sanctions issue and instead called for joint U.N. protection of gulf shipping...
...seemed to give up hope of a quick sanctions vote. Instead, the U.S. showed more interest in preserving unity among the five permanent council members. The five did agree on a renewed effort to get Iran to endorse a cease-fire, threatening possible Soviet and Chinese votes for an embargo if it does...
...briefing after the Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting, State Department spokesman Charles Redman refused to say whether the divisive issue of an arms embargo was discussed...