Unless a solution is found, UN sanctions would come into force first, followed by EU sanctions next week.<\/p>\n
European foreign ministers had tried to avert the council’s step by urging Iran to resume negotiations with the US; to cooperate with the UN’s nuclear watchdog the IAEA, and to account for its highly enriched uranium stockpile.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the UN on Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said: “The United States has betrayed diplomacy, but it is the E3 (Britain, Germany and France) which have buried it.”<\/p>\n
“The negotiation with the United States is in fact a pure dead end,” Aragchi added.<\/p>\n
Iran is legally obliged under the nuclear treaty to allow inspections. <\/p>\n
It has been in talks this week with the IAEA to find a way forward, but has warned that a return of sanctions will put that in jeopardy.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the IAEA confirmed that inspections of Iranian nuclear sites had resumed this week after a hiatius following Washington and Israel’s strikes.<\/p>\n
Western powers and the IAEA say they are not convinced that Iran’s nuclear programme has purely peaceful purposes. <\/p>\n
Iran strongly insists it is not seeking nuclear weapons, and that its programme is solely a civilian one.<\/p>\n
Russia on Friday signed a $25bn deal with Iran to build four nuclear power reactors in southern Iran, Iranian state-run IRNA news agency reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unless a solution is found, UN sanctions would come into force first, followed by EU sanctions next week.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-455023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115275552852301413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455023","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=455023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}