E3 countries – The UK, France and Germany have told the United Nations that they are ready to reimpose sanctions against Iran if Tehran does not agree to nuclear deals by the end of August, the Financial Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
On July 26, the German Foreign Ministry said during a meeting with Iranian representatives in Istanbul that E3 had given Iran the option of postponing the resumption of UN Security Council sanctions if Tehran “meets its legal obligations and ‘specific conditions’.’
“If Iran is willing to reach a diplomatic solution by the end of August 2025, or if he can’t seize an opportunity for expansion, E3 has made it clear that it is ready to trigger a snapback mechanism,” the letter reads.
The letters addressed to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council were signed by French Foreign Minister Jean Noel Barott, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadefel and British Foreign Secretary David Lamy.
Earlier on Saturday, the Iranian deputy minister said Tehran is ready to accept certain restrictions on its nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions.
Tehran is ready to accept certain restrictions on its nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions, but ending uranium enrichment cannot be completely negotiated, Iran’s vice minister of political affairs Majid Tak e Ravanchi said in an interview with Japan’s Kyoda News.
“Iran is flexible in responding to the capabilities and limitations of enrichment, but it is essential that we cannot agree to stop enrichment under any circumstances. We must rely on ourselves, not on the promise of the sky,” the diplomat added.
In a meeting with the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Parliament on Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister for Judicial and International Affairs, Qasem Gallibabadi, in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Aragut said E3 has legal, political and moral authority to oversee the snapback mechanism to portray the nuclear contract via the 2015 nuclear contract. (jcpoa), rezaei has been added.
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