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Iran and Russia: European countries lack authority to activate snapback mechanism

siavash — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:48:55 +0000

Iran and Russia: European countries lack authority to activate snapback mechanism

TEHRAN (Iran News) Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in a telephone conversation have stressed that the European troika; Britain, France, and Germany are not entitled to try to have the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reinstate its sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

The two top diplomats referred to the trio’s increasingly incremental efforts to have the Security Council restore the bans on the eve of expiration of UNSC Resolution 2231. The resolution was issued after conclusion of a 2015 nuclear agreement between the Islamic Republic and world countries, including the three European parties, endorsing the deal and lifting the sanctions.

Araghchi and Lavrov reminded that the European states’ refusal to commit to their obligations under the JCPOA, and their alignment with the United States in the latter’s aggression against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities in June, had robbed them of any excuse to resort to the “snapback.”

Accusing the Islamic Republic of “diverting” its peaceful nuclear energy activities towards “military purposes,” the European countries have been trying to trigger the deal’s so-called “snapback” mechanism. The mechanism enables the sanctions’ return before the resolution’s expected expiration in October.

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European countries must recognize Palestinian state to end war: Foreign minister

mahla — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 21:56:39 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) –Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki stressed on Saturday that the European countries should recognize the Palestinian state to reach a solution to the ongoing conflict.

“Such countries (European countries) have to take their initiative on their own and they have to start by recognizing the state of Palestine,” al-Maliki said during a press conference at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey.

He noted: “Ireland has to be in the forefront of doing so. The Irish people have been demanding this, the Irish parliament has adopted this and right now it depends on the Irish government to take that initiative.”The Palestinian official also stressed that “the only legitimate authority that will operate and will continue operating in Gaza is the Palestinian Authority.“Netanyahu is not a citizen of Gaza and not an elected leader of the Palestinian people in Gaza in order (for him) to decide and to determine who will govern Gaza,” Maliki added.

He also called on the Muslim world and the international community to take a clear stance and thwart Israel’s centuries-long efforts to change the situation.

Israel has launched a deadly military offensive on the Gaza Strip since an Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack, which Tel Aviv said killed less than 1,200 people.

At least 30,320 Palestinians have since been killed and 71,533 others injured amid mass destruction and shortages of necessities.

Israel has also imposed a crippling blockade on the Gaza Strip, leaving its population, particularly residents of northern Gaza, on the verge of starvation.

The Israeli war has pushed 85% of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.

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