Iran has condemned the recent reimposition of UN sanctions, labelling the action as “illegal.”
Tehran further accused several European nations of taking advantage of the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement, according to an Anadolu report on Sunday.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry stated that efforts to revive terminated UN resolutions are “legally baseless, unjustifiable, and entirely unacceptable from moral and logical standpoints.”
It added that the Islamic Republic would vigorously defend its national rights and respond decisively to any actions intended to harm its people’s interests.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addressed a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, criticising the UK, France, and Germany—collectively known as the E3—for invoking the snapback mechanism under Resolution 2231 to reimpose sanctions on Iran.
Araghchi asserted that the E3 had breached their obligations under both the JCPOA and Resolution 2231 and had failed to utilise the Dispute Resolution Mechanism following Israeli and US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June, making their move “legally and procedurally flawed” and therefore null and void.
The sanctions, now back in force for the first time in a decade, prohibit transactions related to Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes and are expected to have wider repercussions for the Iranian economy.
