(WASHINGTON TIMES) A newly revealed United Nations report accuses Iranian leaders of regularly violating international sanctions and asserts that several Western powers — including the United States — ignored the infractions to protect ongoing nuclear talks with the Islamic republic.
The Obama administration and its negotiating partners in the so-called P5+1 — Britain, Germany, France, China and Russia — have turned a blind eye to suspected sanctions violations, according to the report, which the U.N. analysts have been drafting for months.
According to Bloomberg News, the report was published June 1. Researchers who worked on it concluded that there could be a variety of explanations for the silence from Western powers.