- United Nations sanctions against Iran have restored.
- Iran remembers ambassadors in Great Britain, France, Germany.
- The Iranian Rial strikes record fears of the sanctions.
United Nations: the United Nations restored an arms embargo and other sanctions against Iran on Saturday following a process launched by key European powers that Tehran has warned will have a severe response.
Great Britain, France and Germany have sparked the return of sanctions against Iran to the United Nations Security Council for the accusations that the country violated a 2015 agreement which aimed to prevent it from developing a nuclear bomb. Iran denies in search of nuclear weapons.
The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araqchi, urged the UN Secretary General on Sunday to prevent a renaissance of the mechanisms from implementing UN sanctions after being reimped in Tehran.
“We urge you to prevent any attempt from relaunching the mechanisms of sanctions, including the Sanctions Committee and the Panel of Experts,” wrote Araqchi in a letter published on X, adding that Tehran will not recognize any attempt to extend, relaunch or apply the UN sanctions.
The end of the nuclear agreement of a decade, originally agreed by Iran, Great Britain, Germany, France, the United States, Russia and China, should exacerbate tensions in the Middle East, just a few months after Israel and the United States bombed Iranian nuclear sites.
The United Nations sanctions imposed by the Security Council in the resolutions adopted between 2006 and 2010 were reinstated at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday Hae (0000 GMT). 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.
Tehran warned against a severe response. But Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that Iran did not intend to leave the non-proliferation treaty. Iran said on Saturday that he recalled his ambassadors in Great Britain, France and Germany for consultations.
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 website of the United Nations Security Council was quickly updated on Saturday evening to reflect the return to sanctions.
Diplomacy always an option
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 diplomatic roads and negotiations. The reimposition of UN sanctions is not the end of diplomacy,” said the foreign ministers of Great Britain, France and Germany. “We urge Iran to refrain from any climbing action and to regain compliance with its binding legal obligations.”
US 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, US Secretary of State said Marco Rubio said in a statement after the United Nations sanctions reproduction.
“For this to happen, Iran must accept direct talks, held in good faith, without blocking or obscure,” he said, stressing that until there is a new agreement, it was important that the countries have implemented sanctions “immediately in order to put pressure on Iranian leaders to do what was good for their nation and better for the security of the world”.
The Iranian economy is already struggling with paralyzing American sanctions reinstated since 2018 after Trump abandoned the pact during his first mandate.
Iran’s Rial currency continued to refuse fears of new sanctions. 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 the prohibition of all the enrichment and reprocessing activities of uranium and any activity linked to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches.
The other sanctions to be re -implied include a ban on travel on dozens of Iranian people, a freezing of assets on dozens of Iranian people and entities and a ban on the supply of everything that could be used in the Iranian 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.
