US ‘not trustworthy’ to have veto power: Analyst
An American political commentator says the veto power in the hands of the United States as an untrustworthy country is dangerous after Washington said it will reimpose sanctions against Iran without Russian or Chinese support.
“I don’t think that any country in the history of the United Nations has abused veto power and super veto power, specifically more than the United States of America,” said Tim King.
“So I can understand why they would make this move,” he told Press TV in a phone interview on Wednesday.
King made the remarks while commenting on a statement by US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, who vowed any sanctions relief provided to Iran could be reinstated without unanimous support from the UN Security Council.
“We will retain the ability to snap back multilateral sanctions architecture back in place, without Russian or Chinese support,” Power told members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
Washington and its allies will "not allow snap-back to be left in the hands of Russia or China," she added.
The US and its five negotiating partners are in talks with Tehran in order to finalize a comprehensive nuclear agreement by the end of this month.
“I think any type of power of that level should not be in the hands of any country. Every one if these countries, Russia, China, the United States, all of them are all not trustworthy to have that much power,” he said.
He stated that “exclusive veto power like that is very questionable at all times.”
“We have all watched over the years when Israel would be charged for war crimes and so many countries would vote in support of upholding those charges and then the US would come along with the super veto power at the end of the day and just abolish the move and Israel would walk away,” he explained.
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