A resolution by Russia and China that would have delayed the lifting of sanctions against Iran by six months has received a vote in the UN Security Council.
World leaders on Friday voted to reimpose sanctions due to Iran’s nuclear program, 4 to 9, with 2 abstentions. As of 8 p.m. on Saturday in New York (00:00 GMT on Sunday), the sanctions will resume.
Russian and Chinese diplomats pushed for the Security Council to halt the lifting of sanctions, but they were unable to sway enough other members.
Iran has been accused of violating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement, which was intended to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, by France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, as well as the E3. In 2018, Donald Trump resigned from the JCPOA without authorization.
Iran has repeatedly disputed its nuclear weapons’ right to pursue nuclear energy peacefully.
Iran and the world’s leaders, including the US, signed the JCPOA, which lifted sanctions and put an end to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, described the imminent lifting of UN sanctions on Friday as “legally void.”
According to Araghchi, the “pursuit of the so-called “snapback” is clear and consistent, but it is legally void, politically reckless, and has procedural flaws.
He continued, “E3 has buried diplomacy, but the United States has betrayed it.”
They have actively and intently opened the door to a dangerous escalation by disobeying facts, spreading false claims, disproven Iran’s peaceful program, and blocking diplomacy.
No more negotiations, please.
Before the vote, Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s deputy UN envoy, stated in the chamber that while Western powers had tried to avoid any compromise, Iran had done everything.
However, Jerome Bonnafont, France’s permanent representative at the UN in New York, refuted that and claimed Iran had not taken any serious steps to prevent the sanctions from being renewed.
However, Bonnafont added that negotiations should continue and that a negotiated resolution should not be reached at the end of the day.
According to James Bays, a journalist for the UN, “It doesn’t seem like there will be any further negotiation.” All week long, negotiations took place in New York.
However, Bays noted that Iran was aware of the possibility of a new round of sanctions. The Iranian supreme leader said he didn’t believe there would be any progress and that snapback was likely. “I don’t believe there is much more effort being put forth in terms of negotiations right now.”
The already stringent Western sanctions against Iran will be layered on top of them.
“All the international sanctions and UN sanctions that were in place before 2015 are what we are talking about here.”
Israel launched a 12-day war against Iran in June, with Israeli and US forces striking a number of nuclear facilities, escalating regional tensions. The UN nuclear watchdog board declared the Israeli-US bombing a day after Iran violated international nuclear safeguards.
Source: Aljazeera
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