[News] Iran says UN Security Council damages diplomacy after voting against sanctions relief

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  Iran says UN Security Council damages diplomacy after voting against
  sanctions relief

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September 19, 2025
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*Iran’s envoy says the United Nations Security Council’s decision not to 
permanently lift sanctions on Iran undermines the world body, disrupts 
diplomacy and endangers the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).*

Iran's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, 
Amir Saeid Iravani made the remark on Friday after the 15-member 
Security Council voted against a resolution that sought to block the 
re-imposition of deep economic sanctions on Tehran over its peaceful 
nuclear program.

He said Iran sees no obligation to implement the Security Council’s 
“hasty, unnecessary and illegal” move.

The responsibility for the decision’s dire consequences fully rests with 
the United States, Britain, France and Germany, the three European 
signatories to the 2015 nuclear agreement – formally known as the Joint 
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), he added.

The envoy emphasized that the US and European troika leveled alleged 
accusations against Iran while enabling the criminal attacks of the 
Israeli regime on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities, which were 
monitored under the comprehensive safeguard agreement with the 
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

"Iran's nuclear program will never be destroyed by a bomb, halted by 
sanctions and diverted from its peaceful path,” Iravani emphasized.

  “The door to diplomacy is not closed. However, it will be Iran, not 
its enemies, that decides with whom and on what basis to engage,” he 
pointed out.

*China, Russia call snapback ‘illegal’*

China and Russia have both rejected the Europeans' bid to reimpose UN 
sanctions on Iran.

In a joint statement, the two countries, which are parties to the 2015 
Iran nuclear deal, officially announce that they consider the 'snapback' 
of UN sanctions against Iran as ‘illegal and invalid’, and that they 
will not abide by them

The two said they will continue to do business with Iran as usual, 
regardless of UN sanctions.

China's UN Ambassador Fu Cong said the attempt to trigger snapback was 
"detrimental to the diplomatic effort towards an early resumption of 
talks, and may even bring about catastrophic consequences that are 
impossible to foresee and forfeit years of diplomatic efforts in one 
stroke."

He said, “China maintains that hastily pushing for a vote on the draft 
resolution might exacerbate confrontation further and is not conducive 
to the resolution of the issue.”

Calling for restraint and diplomacy, the Chinese envoy said he doubted 
"whether the E3 have the right to invoke the snapback mechanism."

The United Nations Security Council has voted against permanently 
lifting economic sanctions on Iran over its peaceful nuclear program.

The 15-member Council on Friday did not adopt the draft resolution 
drafted by South Korea, as its president, after nine member states voted 
against it, meaning re-imposing European sanctions by September 28 if no 
major deal is reached beforehand.

Russia, China, Pakistan and Algeria voted in favor of the draft text 
while two abstained.

On August 28, Britain, France and Germany -- signatories to the Joint 
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) -- notified the UN Security 
Council that they had invoked the so-called snapback mechanism, a 30-day 
process to restore all UN sanctions against Iran.

Iran rejected the illegitimate move by the European troika, given the 
US’s unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA and the trio’s alignment with 
unlawful sanctions against Iran instead of fulfilling their own commitments.

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