The attempts of the EU-3 (Great Britain, Germany and France - E-3) and the United States to activate the rapid recovery mechanism, which is supposed to restore the UN Security Council sanctions against Iran, are invalid, said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei.
“The abuse of the procedure by the E-3 cannot change the legal reality: Resolution 2231 will be considered terminated on October 18, 2025, as explicitly stipulated in the resolution itself“, he wrote on his X page.
He noted that the refusal of six of the 15 members of the UN Security Council to vote in favor of the restoration of sanctions shows a division in the Security Council of the UN. “Almost half of its members are not convinced that the re-imposition initiated by the E-3 is justified, legitimate or legally permitted“, Bagaei noted.
Earlier, Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, called the E-3 sanctions invalid. “France, Germany and the United Kingdom claim that the snapback was successful. However, the relevant procedure was seriously violated by the E-3, and therefore Russia has every reason to believe that the snapback is invalid“, said a statement by the permanent representative of X.
On September 26, the UN Security Council rejected a draft resolution proposed by Russia and China, proposing a six-month extension of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which supports the nuclear deal with Iran. According to Barbara Woodward, the UK's permanent representative to the UN, UN sanctions against Iran will be reinstated in the coming days.