In one of the most important recent developments in foreign policy, Iran, together with Russia and China, sent an official letter to the UN Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council, declaring the three European countries’ attempts to trigger the snapback mechanism legally invalid, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Berger Ghalibaf said in an open session of Parliament on Sunday.
The move symbolizes the strategic unity of the three powers in the face of Western pressure and reaffirms the lifting of previous restrictions and the continuation of the repeal of all previous resolutions, in accordance with Article 8 of resolution 2231, Ghalibaf said.
Therefore, with the recognition of Iran’s right to enrich uranium, the Iranian nuclear issue was officially removed from the UN Security Council’s security agenda, he noted.
In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday, the U.N. representatives of Iran, Russia and China said Europe’s decision to trigger a snapback lacks legal basis.
“The efforts of the three European countries to trigger the so-called ‘snapback’ mechanism are legally flawed and lack a legal basis,” the letter to Guterres and Wassily Nebenzia said. “The three European states themselves have violated their commitments under (Security Council) resolution 2231 and have refused to follow the trends set out in the ‘Dispute Settlement Mechanism’ and are therefore not entitled to refer to its provisions,” the letter added.
“Based on the effective Article 8 of resolution 2231, all its provisions expired after October 18, 2025. We reiterate that the full and prompt termination of resolution 2231 amounts to the end of consideration of the Iranian nuclear issue in the UN Security Council and strengthens the authority of the Security Council and the credibility of multilateral diplomacy,” the letter added.
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