The United Nations have restored an embargo on weapons and other sanctions to Iran on their nuclear program after a process caused by the European powers that Tehran warned that a hard response will be fulfilled.
Great Britain, France and Germany began the return of the sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council for accusations that had violated a 2015 agreement that aimed to prevent a nuclear bomb from developing. Iran denies the search for nuclear weapons.
The end of the nuclear agreement of a decade originally agreed by Iran, Great Britain, Germany, France, the United States, Russia and China will probably exacerbate tensions in the Middle East, a few months after Israel and the United States bombarded Iranian nuclear sites.
The UN sanctions imposed by the Security Council in resolutions adopted between 2006 and 2010 were reinstated at 8 PM EDT on Saturday. The attempts to delay the return of all the sanctions against Iran failed outside the annual meeting of world leaders at the UN this week.
“We urge Iran and all states to remain completely for these resolutions,” said the foreign ministers of France, Great Britain and Germany in a joint statement after the deadline passed.
The head of foreign policy of the European Union (EU), Kaja Kallas, confirmed in a statement on Sunday that the block “now would proceed to implement the reimposition of all the sanctions related to the UN and the EU previously high without delay.”
Israel praised the reimposition of sanctions to his enemy arc as an “important development”, citing what he called Tehran’s continuous violations about the nuclear program.
“The objective is clear: avoid an Iran with nuclear weapons. The world must use all the tools to achieve this goal,” said Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an X publication.
Tehran denounces the return of ‘unjustifiable’ sanctions
Iran condemned Sunday as “unjustifiable” the restoration of the United Nations sanctions on their nuclear program, after the collapse of conversations with Western and Israelis powers and strike in their nuclear sites.
“The reactivation of annulled resolutions is legally unfounded and unjustifiable … All countries must refrain from recognizing this illegal situation,” said Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran will firmly defend their national rights and interests, and any action aimed at undermining the rights and interests of its people will face a firm and appropriate response.”
Tehran had allowed UN inspectors to return to their nuclear sites, but Iranian President Masoud Peeshkian said that the United States had offered only a brief appropriate in exchange for delivering their entire enriched uranium reserve, a proposal that described as unacceptable.
A 11 -hour effort by the allies of Iran Russia and China to postpone the sanctions until April failed to gain enough votes in the Security Council on Friday, which led to the measures that enter into force at 3:30 am in Tehran (5 am PKT) on Sunday.
Germany, who triggered the return of the sanctions together with Great Britain and France, had no “other option” since Iran did not meet their obligations, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said.
“For us, it is imperative: Iran should never acquire a nuclear weapon,” he told the UN General Assembly. “But allow me to emphasize: we remain open to negotiations on a new agreement. Diplomacy can and should continue.”
Iran calls the ambassadors
Tehran warned about a hard response to the reimposition of sanctions. Iran said on Saturday that he remembered his ambassadors to Britain, France and Germany for consultations. But Iranian president, fishshkian, said Friday that Iran had no intention of leaving the Nuclear Non -Proliferation Treaty.
Russia has played the return of UN sanctions against Iran.
“It is illegal, and it cannot be implemented,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the UN journalists earlier on Saturday, adding that he had written to the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, warning that it would be “an important mistake” for him to recognize a return of UN sanctions in Iran.
The European powers had offered to delay the restitution of sanctions for up to six months to allow space for conversations on a long -term agreement if they will restored access for UN nuclear inspectors, approached concerns about their enriched uranium stock and participated in conversations with the United States.
“Our countries will continue to chase diplomatic routes and negotiations. The reimposition of UN sanctions is not the end of diplomacy,” said the ministers of Great Britain, France and Germany, urging going to “return to compliance.”
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, said in a statement that President Donald Trump has been clear that diplomacy remains an option for Iran and that an agreement remains the best result for the Iranian people and the world.
“For that to happen, Iran must accept direct conversations, held in good faith, without stopping or obfuscation,” said Rubio, adding that until there was a new agreement, it was important that the countries implement sanctions “immediately to press the leaders of Iran.”
Rial falls to register low
Iran’s economy is already struggling to paralyze the American sanctions reimputed since 2018 after Trump left the pact during his first mandate.
Iran’s rial currency continued to weaken for the fears of new sanctions. The Rial fell to 1,123,000 per US dollar, a new minimum record, on Saturday, of approximately 1,085,000 on Friday, according to currency websites, including Bon-bast.com.
With the return of the UN sanctions, Iran will be submitted to an embargo on weapons and a prohibition of all uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities, as well as any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
Other sanctions that were reprinted include a prohibition of traveling in dozens of Iranian citizens, the assets of dozens of people and entities freeze and a prohibition of the offer of anything that can be used in the nuclear program of the nation.
All countries are authorized to confiscate and get rid of any prohibited article under the UN sanctions and Iran will be prohibited from acquiring interest in any commercial activity in another country that involves mining, production or use of nuclear materials and technology.
