Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) – France, Germany and the United Kingdom moved on Thursday Re -re -re -sanctions of the UN for Iran on your nuclear programFurther to isolate Tehran after his atomic sites repeatedly bombed during a 12 -day war with Israel.
This process, called the “Snapback” diplomats who negotiated it to the Iranian nuclear agreement with the world’s powers in 2015, was designed to make the UN resistant to the UN resistant and likely to come into force in October.
Again, it would freeze Iranian assets abroad, stopped with weapons with Tehran and penalized any development of its ballistic missile program, among other things, to press the winding economy of the country.
This step begins with a 30 -day hour to return sanctions, a period that is likely to see intensive diplomacy of Iran, whose refusal to cooperate with inspectors from the International Agency for Atomic Energy or IAEA has launched a crisis. Iran is also likely to appear as the highest focus of the UN General Assembly when it meets in New York next month.
British, French and German foreign ministers suggested that Snapback considered a way to encourage negotiations with Tehran.
“This measure does not mean the end of diplomacy: we are determined to make the most of the 30-day period that is now opening up to participate in the dialogue with Iran,” wrote French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on the X-social platform.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he condemned this step as “unfounded, unlawful and lacked any legal basis” in a call with his European counterparts.
“The Iranian Islamic Republic will respond appropriately to this unlawful and unfounded measure,” he said without processing.
In the past, Iran has threatened to withdraw from the Nuclear Non -Spread Treaty, potentially follow North Korea, who left the contract in 2003 and then built atomic weapons.
Three European nations warned 8th August that Iran He could have launched a snapback when Iaea’s inspection stopped after Israeli staging at the beginning of both countries. 12 -day war in June. Israeli attacks were then killed by the highest military leader Tehran and chased the highest leaders Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to hide.
European nations launched a process of sanctions through a letter to the UN Security Council. France and the United Kingdom also asked for a 15 -member council on Friday a closed consultation on Iranian non -compliance, according to a diplomat who spoke on an anonymity to discuss ever private information.
Diplomacy has a slim chance to create an opening that would move back on October 18, after which any sanction effort is likely to face a veto. Iran would probably have to continue direct negotiations with the US and provide IAEA full access to its nuclear places to get such a delay.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio appreciated the decision of Europeans and said that America “remains available for direct engagement with Iran”.
“Snapmback does not contradict our sincere readiness for diplomacy, it just increases,” Rubio said in a statement.
The use of the Snapback mechanism is likely to increase the tension between Iran and the West in the region still burns Israel’s war Hamas In the Gaza band. As the measure was notified, Israel launched strikes aimed at the Yemeni Iranian Houth Rebel.
“Iranian leaders perceive” Snapback “sanctions as western efforts to weaken the Iranian economy indefinitely and perhaps stimulate sufficient popular riots to avert the Iranian regime,” said Think Tank in New York on Thursday.
After the European warning Iran initially downplayed the threat of renewed sanctions and joined the small visible diplomacy after weeks, but joined the A Short diplomatic pressure In recent days, he emphasized the chaos that attracted his theocracy.
In Tehran on Thursday, the Iranian Rial currency traded over $ 1 million to $ 1. At the time of the 2015 agreement, it was traded for $ 32,000 to $ 1, which has been showing a sharp collapse of the currency in the last decade.
Outside the currency trade in Tehran, Resident Arman Vasheghani Farahani told the Associated Press agency that “many of us feel a deep sense of uncertainty and despair” over the collapse of the nuclear tension.
“Should we still try, or is it time to give up? And how long will this situation take?” he asked. “It seems that no clerk is willing to take responsibility for what is happening.”
Before the War in June Iran enriched Uranus up to 60% purity-short, technical step from the weapons level of 90%. It also built a supply containing enough highly enriched uranium for the construction of multiple atomic bombs if it decided.
Iran insisted for a long time that its program is peaceful, although Western nations and IAEA will assess that Tehran had an active program of nuclear weapons by 2003.
It remains unclear how many Israelis and the US strike in nuclear places during the war disrupted the Iranian program.
As part of the 2015 agreement, Iran agreed to allow IAEA even more access into its nuclear program than those that the agency monitors in other Member States. This included permanent installation of cameras and sensors in nuclear places.
However, IAEA inspectors who faced a growing limitation of their activities since the US unilaterally retreated from the Iranian nuclear agreement in 2018, but still have to obtain this site. Meanwhile, Iran said he had moved uranium and other equipment before the strikes – perhaps to new unnounced places that increase the risk that monitors could lose an overview of the status of the program.
Inspectors of IAEA were watched on Wednesday Fuel replacement in Iranian nuclear reactor Bushehrwhich is operated with Russian technical assistance.
The Snapback mechanism will expire on October 18. Then any sanction efforts would face the veto from the members of the UN Security Council of China and Russia – nations that have provided some support from Iran in the past but remained outside the War of June. China remained the main buyer of Iranian oil, something that could be affected by a snapback.
In recent days, Russia has attracted a proposal to extend the life of the UN solution that provides the strength of Snapback. Russia is also to adopt the UN Security Council in October, which is likely to put further pressure on Europeans’ meetings.
Amiri reported from New York and reported Lichtenstein from Vienna. This report was contributed to by Associated Press Amir Vahdat and Mehdi Fatahi in Tehran, Iran and Matthew Lee in Washington.
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