IRAN: ‘Hard-won UN debate sees US at odds with partners over Iran’, Guardian, 5 January 2018; ‘Video: Iran crisis: France criticizes U.S. over U.N. meeting’, Reuters, 6 January 2018

The US successfully fought off a Russian-led attempt to block a UN Security Council discussion over the past week's Iranian protests. But it immediately found itself at odds with its European partners, who used the subsequent debate to reject American efforts to make the protests an excuse for ditching the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. 'Hard-won UN debate sees US at odds with partners over Iran', Guardian, 5 January 2018; 'Video: Iran crisis: France criticizes U.S. over U.N. meeting', Reuters, 6 January 2018