Russia's foreign minister told the UN General Assembly that the West's rejection of "a rational proposal by China and Russia to extend the 2015 Iran deal in order to allow time for diplomacy.. finally exposed the West's policy of sabotaging the pursuit of constructive solutions."
It also exposed the West's "desire to extract unilateral concessions from Tehran through blackmail and pressure," Sergei Lavrov said.
"We consider such a policy to be unacceptable and consider all manipulations to restore anti-Iranian UN sanctions as well as the sanctions themselves to be illegal."
