The United Nations restored an arms embargo and other sanctions against Iran about its nuclear program following a process launched by the European powers that Tehran warned will have a severe response.
Great Britain, France and Germany have initiated the return of sanctions against Iran to the United Nations Security Council for the accusations that it had violated a 2015 agreement which aimed to prevent it from developing a nuclear bomb. Iran denies in search of nuclear weapons.
The end of the nuclear agreement of a decade, which was originally agreed by Iran, Great Britain, Germany, France, the United States, Russia and China, should exacerbate tensions in the Middle East, only months after Israel and the United States bombed Iranian nuclear sites.
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The United Nations sanctions imposed by the Security Council in the resolutions adopted between 2006 and 2010 were reinstated at 8 p.m. EDT Saturday (0000 GMT on Sunday). Attempts to delay the return of all sanctions against Iran failed on the sidelines of the annual collection of world leaders at the UN this week.
“We urge Iran and all states to fully respect these resolutions,” said the foreign ministers of France, Great Britain and Germany in a joint statement after the deadline.
The head of the European Union foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, confirmed Sunday in a statement that the block would now proceed to the reaction of all the nuclear sanctions of the UN and the EU previously lifted without delay “.
Israel praised the reimposition of sanctions against his enemy arc as “major development”, citing what he called the violations during Teheran on the nuclear program.
“The objective is clear: to prevent an Iran with nuclear arms. The world must use all the tools to achieve this objective,” said the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a position on X.
Iran calls in ambassadors
Tehran warned of a severe response to the reimpection of sanctions. Iran said on Saturday that he recalled his ambassadors in Great Britain, France and Germany for consultations. But Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that Iran did not intend to leave the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Russia has challenged the return of UN sanctions to Iran.
“It is illegal and it cannot be implemented,” the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, to the UN journalists, said on Saturday, adding that he had written to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warning that it would be “a major error” for him to recognize the return of sanctions against Iran.
The European powers had proposed to delay the reintegration of sanctions for up to six months to allow long-term talks if Iran has restored access to UN nuclear inspectors, responded to concerns concerning its enriched uranium stock and engaged in talks with the United States.
“Our countries will continue to continue the roads and diplomatic negotiations. The reimposure of UN sanctions is not the end of diplomacy,” said the foreign ministers of Great Britain, France and Germany, urging Iran to “return to conformity”.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that in a statement, President Donald Trump has been clear that diplomacy is still an option for Iran and that an agreement remains the best result for the Iranian people and the world.
“For this to happen, Iran must accept direct talks, detained in good faith, without blocking or obscure,” said Rubio, adding that until there is a new agreement, it was important for countries to implement sanctions “immediately in order to put pressure on Iranian leaders”.
Rial falls to record the law
The Iranian economy is already struggling with paralyzing American sanctions reinstated since 2018 after Trump abandoned the pact during his first mandate.
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Iran’s Rial currency continued to weaken new sanctions fears. The Rial fell to 1,123,000 by US dollar, a new lower record on Saturday from around 1,085,000 Friday, according to exchange websites, including Bon-Fast.com.
With the return of UN sanctions, Iran will once again be subject to an arms embargo and a ban on all enrichment and uranium reprocessing activities, as well as any activity linked to ballistic missiles capable of providing nuclear weapons.
The other sanctions to be reimplicated include a ban on traveling on dozens of Iranian citizens, assets freeze dozens of people and entities and a ban on the supply of everything that could be used in the country’s nuclear program.
All countries are authorized to seize and have any article prohibited by United Nations sanctions and Iran will be prohibited from acquiring interest in any commercial activity in another country involving the extraction, production or use of nuclear materials and nuclear technologies.
