To get some idea of the spectacle de merde at the UN Security Council in the wake of the Pompeo visit, this is what one diplomat had to say about the snapback gambit on Iran sanctions:

The Americans were actually being over the top in their ridiculousness.."
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"The underlying point here is that most countries on the Security Council basically agree with the US that Iran is not a nice country and it having nuclear weapons and more arms is not a good thing."
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..But the Americans misplayed their hand so often, so aggressively, that they isolated themselves from people not on policy, but on just being unpleasant.”

Our story:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/21/us-iran-sanctions-un-mike-pompeo

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