The sanctions of the United Nations on Iran will be re -imposed on Saturday, said the UN envoy of Great -Britain on Friday after a resolution of Russian and Chinese Security Council to delay them, so that Tehran was asked to warn that the West was responsible for any consequences.
The decision to restore sanctions by Western powers will probably aggravate tensions with Iran, which has already warned that the action would get a hard reaction and open the door to escalation.
The Russian and Chinese urge to postpone the return of sanctions against Iran failed in the 15-person UN Security Council after only four countries supported their design solution.
“This council does not have the necessary certainty that there is a clear path to a rapid diplomatic solution,” said Great -Britain’s envoy to the United Nations, Barbara Wood, after the mood.
“This council fulfilled the necessary steps of the Snapback process set out in resolution 2231, which is why UN sanctions aimed at Iranian proliferation will be imposed again this weekend,” she said.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told a group of journalists and analysts that Iran did not intend to leave the non-proliferation agreement in response to the revival of the UN sanctions.
“Iran will never look for nuclear weapons … We are fully prepared to be transparent about our very enriched uranium,” said Pezeshkian.
Sanctions Snapback process in motion
All UN sanctions with Iran will be restored on Saturday at 8 p.m. EDT on Saturday (10.00 am Aest on Sunday) After European powers, known as the E3, has started a 30-day trial that Tehanan accused of the jointly extensive plan of action (JCPOA)-a 2015 agreement developed a core weapon.
The Snapback mechanism of sanctions against Iran is a trial under the JCPOA that makes the return of the previously lifted, UN Sanctions against Iran in response to a large violation of the nuclear deal.
Iran denies that it is looking for nuclear weapons.
Diplomats had said that the resolution to postpone the sanctions for six months probably not to pass, after the last handle conversations between Iran and Great Britain, France and Germany had not breaking the impasse.
Nine countries voted no, while two abstain.
The deputy envoy of Russia for the United Nations accused the Western powers of burial the diplomatic path, and the representative of China, Geng Shuang, expressed deep regret that the resolution was not assumed and called out to maintain regional peace and stability.
“A breakdown in the Iranian nuclear issue could cause a new regional security crisis that is contrary to the common interests of the international community,” he said.
E3 ‘buried’ diplomacy, says Iran
The Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said to the council: “Packing the so-called ‘Snapback’ is clear and consistent is legally void, politically reckless and procedurally inadequate.”
“The US has betrayed diplomacy, but it is the E3 that bury it,” he said.
The European powers had offered to postpone the repair of sanctions for up to six months to give room for conversations about a long-term deal such as Iran restored access to nuclear inspectors, the concern about the stock of enriched uranium and conversations with the United States had encouraged.
The American representative at the Council said that Iran had not tackled E3 -which means that a return of sanctions was inevitable, although she had left the door open for diplomacy and France said that the return of sanctions was not the end of diplomacy.
On Tuesday, the highest leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that negotiations with the US would not serve the interests of Tehran and prove a “dead end”.
In a recorded message, Khamenei also said that Iran would not surrender to the pressure “with regard to the enrichment of uranium, and he repeated the long -term official position of Tehran that it does not need nuclear weapons and does not intend to produce them.
UN sanctions would immediately enter into force on Saturday, while the sanctions of the European Union would return next week.
The sanctions would restore a weapon embargo, a ban on uranium enrichment and uprupting, a ban on activities with ballistic missiles that are able to supply nuclear weapons, freezing a global assets and travel prohibitions on Iranian people and entities and would also touch its energy sector.
Iran’s currency touches a low point
Iran’s economy is already struggling with paralyzing sanctions imposed since 2018, after the US President Donald Trump has dumped the nuclear deal during his first term.
The announcement of the implementation of the Snapback Mechanism has already influenced the economy of the country, with the currency of Iran hit a low point against the US dollar on Thursday.
Earlier on Friday at the general meeting of the UNIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose country bombed Iran’s nuclear installations with the United States in June, said the world would not allow Iran to re -build her nuclear and military programs.
“We have lifted a dark cloud that could have claimed millions and millions of lives, but ladies and gentlemen, we have to remain vigilant,” said Netanyahu.
“We should not allow Iran to rebuild its military nuclear capacities, the stock of Iran of enriched uranium. These stocks must be eliminated, and tomorrow the sanctions of the UN Security Council to Iran must be broken back,” he said.
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