the world will slide backwards toward a "might makes right" standard. And while this may sound appealing to Cold Warriors looking for new targets， Russia， China， Iran and the rest of the international community have been left in the extraordinary position of watching the US become the first government in UN history that not just violates a binding resolution it itself sponsored， which endorsed - and is inseparable from - the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action， one may wonder why or how the collapse of a single UN Security Council resolution on a niche subject relates to the bigger picture. It does， Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Photo: Xinhua What we in Iran - the target of a vicious and indiscriminate sanctions regime -have seen from the current US administration is quite straightforward: there is no grand vision for an alternative global community. The US' fickleness and unpredictability have nothing to do with masterful implementation of game theory. Rather whether it comes to its mismanagement of COVID-19 at home or its undermining of peace and stability abroad。

to the chagrin of its closest Western allies. If the US is allowed to continue on this path， Britain， more malevolent motivations: having failed to collapse Resolution 2231 after over two years of the most brutal "maximum pressure" ever imposed on a nation - including depriving ordinary Iranians of access to medicines and medical equipment amid the deadliest pandemic the world has seen in many decades - the US now hopes to abuse its mal-interpretation of the provisions of the same resolution it abandoned in 2018 to finally destroy it. This deeply malicious US behavior is evident throughout the UN。

but also punishes those governments and companies that uphold international law by implementing its provisions. As I warned the Security Council last month。

it cannot perform its duties， Iran， which embraces the nuclear deal - and to which its full 90 pages are attached。

the current regime in Washington has no real plan except to frontally assault those who stand by the rule of law. The US handling of UN Security Council Resolution 2231。

this has meant that it is now the US Treasury and not European national governments which decide with whom European companies can do business - be it under Resolution 2231 or their own North Stream gas lifeline. While it has so far primarily been the US that has sought to expand the jurisdiction of its domestic laws， in May 2018 the US administration declared that it had unilaterally opted for "ceasing participation" in the JCPOA. Since then， France and Germany signed a landmark agreement to satisfy any concerns over the exclusively peaceful nature of our nuclear program while relieving the Iranian people of inhumane and unjust sanctions. As part of the JCPOA， trade and investment in a retrograde step for our globalized world.