The Obama administration has lost a vote to Iran at the UN Human Rights Council over the legitimacy of sanctions.
On October 1, 2015, the Council adopted a resolution condemning the use of economic sanctions, a vital tool against terror-supporting regimes, as a violation of the "right to development." The resolution, which was sponsored by Iran on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, "Condemns the continued unilateral application and enforcement by certain powers of such measures as tools of political or economic pressure against any country, particularly against developing countries, with a view to preventing these countries from exercising their right to decide, of their own free will, their own political, economic and social systems..."
The resolution was adopted by a vote of 33 to 14 with no abstentions. Voting against the resolution were: Albania, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Portugal, Republic of Korea, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and United States.
Iran, which will receive billions of dollars of sanctions relief as a result of the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) nuclear agreement, is still subject to Congressionally-supported sanctions for its sponsorship of terrorism.