Iran is amongst eight nations that may lose their voting rights within the 193-member Common Meeting of the United Nations over unpaid dues, in keeping with a Wednesday letter from Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres.

Together with Iran, Venezuela, Sudan, Antigua and Barbuda, Republic of Congo, Guinea, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea are dropping their voting rights over unpaid dues, in keeping with the letter Guterres despatched to Common Meeting President Abdulla Shahid.

A member nation can lose voting rights in accordance with U.N. guidelines concerning when unpaid dues equal or exceed the whole that the nation has contributed for the final two full years.

Iran misplaced its voting rights final January earlier than regaining them in June by making the minimal fee for owed dues. After they regained the voting rights, Iranian officers blamed the US for sanctions they stated prevented them from accessing billions of dollars in overseas banks throughout the globe that might have paid their charges.

The minimal fee wanted to regain voting rights is over $18 million for Iran, together with $39 million for Venezuela and simply wanting $300,000 for Sudan.

Final June, Iran made the minimal fee of over $16 million to regain the voting rights, in keeping with the Related Press.

"Unlawful U.S. sanctions haven't simply disadvantaged our individuals of medication; they've additionally prevented Iran from paying our dues in arrears to the U.N. After greater than six months of engaged on it, the U.N. as we speak introduced it has acquired the funds. ALL inhumane sanctions have to be lifted NOW," Iran's U.N. Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi tweeted on the time.

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Iran and 7 different nations are set to lose their voting rights within the United Nations Common Meeting over unpaid dues to the group. Above, the U.N. emblem is seen in entrance of the United Nations Workplace (UNOG) on June 8, 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland.Johannes Simon/Getty Photographs

The suspension takes impact instantly.

The U.N. Constitution additionally offers the Common Meeting the authority to determine "that the failure to pay is because of circumstances past the management of the member," and in that case a rustic can proceed to vote.

The Common Meeting determined that three African international locations on the checklist of countries in arrears—Comoros, Sao Tome and Principe and Somalia—would have the ability to hold their voting rights.

The 5 different international locations every want lower than $75,000 to revive their voting rights.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump re-imposed sanctions on Iran after pulling the U.S. out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and 6 main powers in 2018.

The Related Press contributed to this report.