{"id":4858,"date":"2022-01-31T12:51:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T12:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=4858"},"modified":"2022-01-31T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T12:51:05","slug":"s-korea-says-iran-regain-un-vote-after-delinquent-dues-paid-with-frozen-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2022\/01\/31\/s-korea-says-iran-regain-un-vote-after-delinquent-dues-paid-with-frozen-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Korea says Iran regain UN vote after delinquent dues paid with frozen funds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/skorea-says-iran-regain-un-vote-after-delinquent-dues-paid-with-frozen-funds-2022-01-23\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After not being able to pay their dues because of US sanctions, Iran lost their voting rights in the UN. Though South Korea paid their dues with frozen iranian funds. These funds have stayed frozen because the vote which would unfreeze them requires the United States to approve of them. Though it’s unlikely because the US States rejoined the 2015 nuclear deal, which only has weeks to stay afloat. South Korea is said to have been working with the US treasury department to free the frozen funds, which Iran had asked for the week prior in a sense of urgency. Reports coming from Tehran have said that the frozen funds of about $7 billion are being held \u201chostage\u201d by South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I personally believe that US sanctions are going to be placed on Iran. And they prevent Iran from paying dues such as the UN, there should be a way for both the US and South Korea to give them enough of the frozen accounts to do that. I know that if given the money it is plausible to think that Iran could use the money for something else, but if most accounts are frozen for the Iranian government, it would make sense to maintain voting rights. If Iran kept voting rights instead of using the money for something else, they could argue in the UN to get the US to give up the sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article and topic focuses on the foreign policy of Iran, the nuclear deal that has been holding talks. The nuclear deal that was mentioned in the article has been ongoing for the past 7 years. In that time the United States has left them in 2018 and most recently rejoined. Iran\u2019s national interest is also a main priority in the article. It is in Iran\u2019s national interest to maintain the accounts that are frozen and for the United States sanctions to be lifted. A main reason for this is because if the sanctions are not lifted and the frozen funds stay frozen, Iran can not pay their dues to maintain voting rights in the United Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/skorea-says-iran-regain-un-vote-after-delinquent-dues-paid-with-frozen-funds-2022-01-23\/ After not being able to pay their dues because of US sanctions, Iran lost their voting rights in the UN. Though South Korea paid their dues with frozen iranian funds. These funds have stayed frozen because the vote which would unfreeze them requires the United States to approve of them. Though it’s unlikely because the US States rejoined the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4859,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions\/4859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}