The United Nations Protection Council on Friday turned down a U.S. proposal to lengthen a five-yr ban on the sale of common weapons to Iran, leaving Washington isolated on an difficulty that after drew a wide consensus.

The resolution had been broadly anticipated to fail, supplied opposition from China and Russia and other states. Even now, the consequence serves as a rebuke to U.S. arguments that Washington had built wide-primarily based assistance for its posture by means of diplomacy. Trump administration officials have touted consensus between Israel and…