<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">The United States has urged its fellow UN Security Council members to punish and impose sanctions on Iran for its, what it termed, malign behaviour in West Asia. At a meeting on the implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, US Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Jonathan Cohen said, if a country continuously violates the Council's resolutions, it is imperative to pursue meaningful consequences.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">It was the first meeting of the Security Council since US President Donald Trump announced on 8th May that Washington was withdrawing from the nuclear agreement with Tehran.</span></p>