{"id":382704,"date":"2025-08-29T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382704\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:56:11","slug":"russia-china-slam-european-nations-over-iran-snapback-sanctions-move-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382704\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, China slam European nations over Iran \u2018snapback\u2019 sanctions move | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia said it \u2018strongly condemns\u2019 actions of Germany, France and UK as China says sanctions move \u2018counterproductive\u2019.<\/p>\n

Published On 29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025<\/p>\n

Russia and China have condemned a decision by Britain, Germany and France to launch<\/a> a process that could reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n

The three European countries, known as the E3, launched the so-called \u201csnapback mechanism<\/a>\u201d on Thursday over accusations that Iran has violated a 2015 deal that aimed to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapons capability in return for the lifting of international sanctions.<\/p>\n

The move opens a 30-day window during which a new UN resolution to continue sanctions relief must be adopted to prevent penalties from being reimposed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe strongly condemn these actions by European countries and call on the international community to reject them,\u201d the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday in a statement that blamed the United States and the Europeans for the collapse of the 2015 nuclear deal.<\/p>\n

China said the move by the European countries was \u201cnot constructive\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iranian nuclear issue is at a critical juncture. Launching the Security Council\u2019s snapback mechanism of sanctions is not constructive and will undermine the process of a political and diplomatic settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told a regular media briefing on Friday.<\/p>\n

Iran earlier decried the move, with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying it was \u201cunjustified\u201d and \u201clacking any legal basis\u201d in a call with his European counterparts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Islamic Republic of Iran will respond appropriately to this unlawful and unwarranted measure,\u201d he said. Hours later, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the move by the European countries will \u201cgravely undermine\u201d its ongoing cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog agency.<\/p>\n

NPT withdrawal threat<\/p>\n

Iranian MP Hossein-Ali Haji-Deligani told the Tasnim news agency that the parliament is planning legislation that would take the country out of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in response to the European move<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The treaty has been a cornerstone of global nuclear arms control for decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe draft law is on the agenda and will undergo the legal review and approval process next week,\u201d the MP told the agency, adding that given the possible reimplementation of UN sanctions, further nuclear negotiations with the West would no longer make sense.<\/p>\n

The only option, he said, would be to completely sever ties with the European trio.<\/p>\n

Iran says it needs nuclear energy for power, but the West has long feared it is trying to build an atomic bomb.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump, who unilaterally took the US out of the 2015 deal in his first term, said he believed it was not sufficiently curtailing Iranian nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n

Tehran has repeatedly threatened to exit the NPT in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia said it \u2018strongly condemns\u2019 actions of Germany, France and UK as China says sanctions move \u2018counterproductive\u2019. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[299,36,1824,774,839,12,332,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-382704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115112639440929283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}