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\nSamantha Power, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations in President Barack Obama\u2019s second term, has said supporters of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal went soft on the regime\u2019s human rights abuses.<\/p>\n
Ambassador Power recalls in her new memoir: \u201cUnfortunately, some countries were so pleased by the nuclear agreement that they felt it was unnecessary to run an annual U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning Iran’s human rights abuses<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n Ambassador Power doesn\u2019t identify the countries that wanted to scrap the traditional denunciation in the months after the Security Council\u2019s July 2015 endorsement of the nuclear agreement. But the episode dovetails with long-standing criticisms from Iran hawks, who argued that the agreement short-circuited Western efforts to counteract Tehran\u2019s other aggressive policies, in order to avoid provoking the Iranian regime to leave the deal.<\/p>\n \u201cI insisted we proceed, lobbying frenetically to ensure that the Iranian government\u2019s deplorable treatment of its people got attention in its own right,\u201d Power writes in The Education of an Idealist.<\/p>\n Such successes were all too rare, according to the leading opponents of the agreement, who maintained that the deal gave Iran\u2019s regime the money to finance a multinational terrorism campaign while tying the hands of the United States and Western European powers.<\/p>\n .@SamanthaJPower<\/a>: Iran deal backers ‘were so pleased by the nuclear deal,’ they immediately went soft on human rightshttps:\/\/t.co\/YVY0wsrIJb<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/2qRobsq0UL<\/a><\/p>\n\n