German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has rejected the U.S. move to initiate the so-called snapback of sanctions on Iran, saying only participants to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) are able to initiate the process.
Our position on snapback is very clear: Only JCPOA participants may notify the UN Security Council of significant non-performance ...
Washingtons snapback regarding the UN Security Councils sanctions against Iran has not taken place, says Russias Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia.
On the snapback, I think everything is clear. The snapback has not happened, Nebenzia told reporters on Thursday in his capacity as President of the UN Security Council for the month ...
Tasnim - Washingtons reasoning behind bringing back the UN sanctions against Iran looks funny, as the majority of UN Security Council members 13 out of 15 do not support activating the snapback mechanism, the Russian foreign minister said.
The Council clearly stated that there is no legal position or moral reasons for anything close to the snapback ...
IRNA - Russian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov in a message described US claim to restore sanctions against Iran as cynical.
"US claims that previous U.N. sanctions are reimposed on #Iran and threatens that all those who disagree with the US national interpretation of snapback ...
Reuters | Steve Holland, Arshad Mohammed: The United States on Monday will sanction more than two dozen people and entities involved in Irans nuclear, missile and conventional arms programs, a senior U.S. official said, putting teeth behind U.N. sanctions on Tehran that Washington argues have resumed despite the opposition of allies and adversaries....
MNA China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin called US claims on returning UN sanctions on Iran baseless.
China is following Iran's nuclear issue closely, and Foreign Ministry and China's representative to the United Nations have made a clear position on this issue, said Wang Wenbin in Regular Press Conference on Monday.
Recalling that ...
IRNA - Iranian Ambassador to the UK Hamid Baeidinejad in a message said the UNSC announced its opposition against the restoration of Iran sanctions, adding that the US faces unprecedented isolation.
Thirty days after the US' first request for restoring six UN sanctions resolutions against Iran, the Security Council, without any action, declared ...
IRNA - Coinciding with Trump administrations claim that UN sanctions against Iran will be restored, Bloomberg wrote in a report: "allies and adversaries argue the U.S. effort to restore sanctions is groundless and a diplomatic crisis is set to explode."
According to Bloomberg on Sunday, The Trump administrations push to kill off whats left of the ...
MNA Referring to US claim on returning UN sanctions on Iran, Top Adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution for International Affairs said that no one in the world will join Washington in activating the 'snapback' mechanism.
"The US will not be able to do anything against the Iranian people, andno one in the world will join Washington ...
MNA Spokesman of Iran's Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said that Americans claim that they have activated Snapback Mechanism but it seems that snapback triggered by Americans is unreal, ineffective.
The US move on the claim that they have triggered the snapback mechanism on Iran is baseless and we do not consider ...
The Guardian |Patrick Wintour: France, Germany and UK say Washington does not have the authority, setting up clash
European leaders have warned the US that its claim to have the authority to reimpose sweeping UN-mandated sanctions on Iran has no effect in law, setting up a major legal clash that could lead to Washington imposing sanctions on its ...
Tasnim United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council he cannot take any action on a US declaration that all UN sanctions on Iran had been reimposed because there would appear to be uncertainty on the issue.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last month that he triggered a 30-day process at the council leading to ...
MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, "As we predicted the previous days, today, September 20, 2020 will be a memorable day in the history of our country's diplomacy."
"The Americans once again tried to form a coalition of the international community against Iran," said President Rouhani onSunday inaCabinetmeetingreferring to US ...
MNA Irans Permanent Representative to the United Nations emphasized that US claim to trigger snapback mechanism and returning Iran sanctions lifted under UNSCR 2231 has no legal effect and is considered null and void.
In this letter penned to the UN secretary-general and president of the UN Security Council, the Iranian mission reminded that in ...
Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson recommended that the US government should honor its commitments and stop lawlessness to return to the international community.
Tehrans message for Washington is clear. Return to the international community, return to your commitments, and stop lawlessness, and the international community will accept you,...
MNA In response to US officials' remarks on activation of 'snapback' mechanism, Irans Permanent Representative to the United Nations said that the US claim of snapback is null and void.
In a tweet on Sunday, Takht Ravanchi wrote, "US' illegal & false deadline" has come and gone."
"UNSC member states continue to maintain US is NOT a JCPOA ...
MNA Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov questioned the possibility of the United States using snapback to impose new sanctions on Iran and once again blamed Washington.
In a tweet on Saturday, Ulyanov wrote, "Some people in US believe that even their close allies in certain situations must without ...
MNA |Payman Yazdani: Trump's efforts to reactivate the snapback mechanism at the UNSC is doomed to failure once again, all he can do is reimposing US unilateral sanctions on Iran and pretending they are part of the mechanism.
The Trump administration is getting ready to reimpose international sanctions against Iran by activating the snapback mechanism ...
The Guardian | Julian Borger: Officials says they will launch new measures on Monday despite overwhelming opposition
The US will break with almost every other UN security council member state including its closest allies on Saturday night by declaring UN sanctions back in effect on Iran.
Administration officials say they will launch a raft of ...
Tasnim Washingtons push to trigger the snapback mechanism of the JCPOA for re-imposing sanctions on Iran is nothing but an attempt to attract the American public attention as part of a propaganda game, Iranian official Ali Akbar Velayati said.
In an interview with Tasnim, Velayati slammed the hype over the so-called snapback mechanism of the 2015 ...