The international body has rejected a Russian and Chinese-backed draft resolution to extend relief for Tehran.
The UN Security Council has voted down a Moscow and Beijing-sponsored resolution calling for a six-month extension of sanctions relief for Iran, opening the way for the reinstatement of restrictions over its nuclear program.
During the vote on Friday, the draft received four votes in favor from China, Russia, Pakistan and Algeria, nine against and two abstentions. This means that sanctions on Iran, which had been lifted under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) it agreed with major world powers in 2015, will resume starting from midnight GMT on Saturday.
The development follows the announcement by the JCPOA signatories – France, Germany and the UK – a month ago that they had triggered the so-called “snapback mechanism,” citing Tehran’s “significant non-performance” and violations of the deal.
Russian deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said during the UNSC meeting that Moscow “categorically rejects” statements by Paris, Berlin, and London that they had a right to launch the snapback mechanism.
By speaking out against prolonging sanctions relief, the Western countries “definitively demonstrated that all of their assurances about their focus on arriving at a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear program issue for all of these years, were mere noise,” he stressed.
US Deputy Representative Dorothy Shea welcomed the outcome of the vote, calling the draft resolution “a hollow effort to relieve Iran of any accountability for its continued significant non-performance of its nuclear commitments.”
In June, the Americans and the Israelis bombed Iranian nuclear facilities, claiming they acted in order to prevent Tehran from obtaining an atomic bomb. Iran maintains that its nuclear program is purely peaceful.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Friday that the reinstatement of sanctions on his country would set a “dangerous precedent,” which could put the UNSC at risk of losing its credibility.
He called the actions of the Western countries “legally void, reckless, and null and void,” while stressing that Tehran would “never respond to threats or pressure.”
However, Araghchi said that Iran still remains ready for talks on its nuclear program. “Diplomacy never dies, but it has become more difficult,” he said.
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petrodollar and euro are toast, They are taking us to war.
Sh*tting on Iran again, just because it’s outside thejr zone of lnfluence, meaning Iran is sovereign.
In case anybody is not up-to-date with the fact that Iran has a very sophisticated society, in their shallow tv mentality they can resort to maybe watching movies. Yes, Iran has a movie indusrty. https://www.imdb.com/list/ls091419873/
Here is one for example, where some people, upon watching, might revise their idea about Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZcOpzhczy0
In June, the Americans and the Israelis bombed Iranian nuclear facilities against International Law or what is left of it
Freedom of navigation is the norm
The UN is a decrepit corrupt regime and control mechanism for US expansion and imperialism
And needs to be disbanded now
European nations reimpose UN sanctions on Iran
https://www.rt.com/news/625559-european-snapback-iran-sanctions/
Tehran has stated that the ‘snapback’ has no legal grounds, adding that no state is obliged to roll out the restrictions