European E3 - صفحه 3

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said before departing New York for Tehran that the United States had offered Iran a three-month sanctions waiver in exchange for abandoning its entire uranium enrichment program.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry reiterated Iran's right to benefit from peaceful nuclear energy, urging the world to stand against double and deceitful standards.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has recalled its ambassadors from Germany, France, and the United Kingdom for consultations in Tehran.

The United States and its allies veto a draft resolution aimed at delaying “snapback” of the UN Security Council’s sanctions against Iran that were lifted in 2015 in line with a nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and world countries.

President Masoud Pezeshkian says a “definitive solution” to the standoff between Iran and the West over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program is “within reach” if all parties respect each other’s rights and interests and adhere to the principle of fairness.

In a meeting with his Swiss counterpart on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi strongly criticized the irresponsible approach of the European trio regarding Iran’s nuclear file, stressing that their insistence on misusing Security Council mechanisms to exert pressure on Iran is unacceptable and destabilizing.

Diplomacy has a chance," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kalas said, referring to her and the European Troika foreign ministers' joint meeting with Iranian officials on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi held a joint meeting with the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, along with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi warned against the consequences of any attempt by the European trio to use the UN Security Council as a tool of pressure against Tehran, stressing that such measures would carry serious repercussions.

Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref warned that any attempt by the European trio to reinstate United Nations sanctions will ultimately fail, just as their support for Saddam Hussein during the imposed war and their years of sanctions brought them no tangible gains. He emphasized that Tehran has already prepared economic forecasts and contingency measures to ensure resilience under any extraordinary conditions.

The officials of Iran and the three European powers will hold talks in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in the coming days.

Hossein Noshabadi, Director General for Parliamentary Affairs at Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Parliament, strongly condemned the recent move by the E3 — the UK, Germany, and France — to trigger the so-called snapback mechanism against Iran. He described the action as “illegal, provocative, and in clear violation of international obligations,” stressing that the three European states must be held accountable for its consequences.

By Homayoun Barkhor | English Desk Editor & Foreign Policy Analyst, Borna News Agency: The failure of a U.N. Security Council draft to extend sanctions relief for Iran did not leave a vacuum. Instead, it accelerated confrontation. With that text blocked, Britain, France, and Germany have moved to trigger the “snapback” mechanism—a tool meant to automatically restore prior U.N. restrictions against Tehran. In Western capitals, snapback is framed as necessary pressure. Across the East and Global South, it is seen as coercion without consensus. Russia, China, Pakistan, Cuba, and others have already said openly they will not recognize its legitimacy.

The Supreme National Security Council of Iran, chaired by President Masoud Pezeshkian, has decided to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) following the irresponsible and politically motivated actions of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany regarding Iran’s nuclear program.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has strongly condemned the recent UN Security Council vote on snapback sanctions against Iran. In his post on X (formerly Twitter), Rodríguez rejected the decision, saying it undermines Iran’s sovereign right to peacefully pursue its nuclear program and further erodes stability in the Middle East.

The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a strongly worded statement on Saturday, denouncing the latest UN Security Council vote on the reimposition of sanctions on Iran, arguing that the move had “nothing to do with diplomacy” and calling for firm resistance against what it described as Western and U.S. “dictatorship and pseudo-legal nihilism” in international affairs.

Iran’s ambassador to Spain has warned that Europe is undermining its own diplomatic leverage by pushing for the activation of the UN “snapback” mechanism, calling it a lose-lose equation that benefits neither Tehran nor Europe.

Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said that if the snapback mechanism is activated next week, Iran’s recent agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Cairo will be suspended.

Pakistan Permanent envoy to the UN warned that invoking the snapback and re-imposition of UN sanctions on Iran could further complicate the situation.

Senior Iranian diplomats have dismissed European efforts to trigger the UN sanctions snapback mechanism as politically motivated and biased, noting that the three European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal are following the US lead.