Tasnim - Washingtons reasoning behind bringing back the UN sanctions against Iran looks funny, as the majority of UN Security Council members 13 out of 15 do not support activating the snapback mechanism, the Russian foreign minister said. The Council clearly stated that there is no legal position or moral reasons for anything close to the snapback ...

MNA In reaction to recent US efforts to return UN sanctions on Iran, President's Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi said that the US illegal efforts were once again failed, and the legitimacy of Iran's stance was reaffirmed. "As expected and we have already informed Iranian people, the extensive political and illegal efforts of the United States were ...

Tasnim The spokesman for Irans UN mission reacted to a report that the US is going to impose new sanctions on dozens of people tied to Irans arms industry, saying such moves would not change the fact about the humiliating failure of Washingtons maximum pressure policy. In comments on Monday, Alireza Miryousefi said any new American sanctions against ...

IRNA - Iranian Ambassador to the UK Hamid Baeidinejad in a message said the UNSC announced its opposition against the restoration of Iran sanctions, adding that the US faces unprecedented isolation. Thirty days after the US' first request for restoring six UN sanctions resolutions against Iran, the Security Council, without any action, declared ...

The Guardian |Patrick Wintour: France, Germany and UK say Washington does not have the authority, setting up clash European leaders have warned the US that its claim to have the authority to reimpose sweeping UN-mandated sanctions on Iran has no effect in law, setting up a major legal clash that could lead to Washington imposing sanctions on its ...

Tasnim United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council he cannot take any action on a US declaration that all UN sanctions on Iran had been reimposed because there would appear to be uncertainty on the issue. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last month that he triggered a 30-day process at the council leading to ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said American officials are themselves aware that their claims with regard to restoring sanctions against Iran is false. Speaking in an Iranian TV channel late on Saturday, Zarif said that since one month ago, the US has been working on extending the arms embargo against Iran. He pointed to ...

MNA US Secretary of State said that JCPOA has gone down in history and called on Europe to join US for imposition of sanctions against Iran. Mike Pompeo on Tuesday claimed that Irans nuclear deal, JCPOA, has gone in the history and requested European countries and other states to join the United States for imposition of Strong Sanctions against ...

Tasnim President Hassan Rouhani highlighted the recent US failures in its attempts against Iran, saying the unprecedented defeats came thanks to the Iranian nations steadfastness and resistance. The Iranian nation knows that Washington has in recent weeks suffered major political defeats that were unprecedented in the history of the US and the ...

IRNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that the US will get nowhere in its attempt with the UN Security Council to restore UN sanctions on Iran. Addressing the Wednesday cabinet ministers' meeting, Rouhani termed these attempts as only propaganda campaign and assured the people that the Government and especially diplomats in the ...

MNA Iranian President's Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi said that the obvious threat to impose sanctions on countries that oppose the US and do not accompany it, is a dangerous innovation in the international system and the UNSC. In reaction to the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's latest remarks, Vaezi said, "Influenced by the extremist approach ...

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER and MATTHEW LEE: The United States and most of the rest of the U.N. Security Council dug in their heels Thursday on diametrically opposed positions over the restoration of international sanctions on Iran. In increasingly intense rhetorical terms, U.S. officials insisted they had acted legitimately in triggering a so-called snapback ...

Tasnim The UN Security Council presidents statement that the US push to restore the UN sanctions on Iran is null and void indicates that the American attempt would have legal consequences, Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson said. In an interview with IRIB on Wednesday, Saeed Khatibzadeh hailed the UN Security Councils opposition to Washingtons ...

MNA The Iranian ambassador to London has reacted to the isolation of the United States at the UN Security Council for the second time and said there is no consensus on US bid to return Iran's sanction. "Today, the head of the Security Council, in response to the question on his [prospective] action regarding a US plan to return sanctions against ...

Foreign Policy | SAHEB SADEGHI: On Thursday, the United States delivered notification to the U.N. Security Council demanding a so-called snapback of all the previous U.N. sanctions against Iran under Resolution 2231. The Trump administration cited significant violations of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, from which the United States withdrew in May 2018....

IRNA - Iran's Permanent Mission to the United Nations said in a statement that US objective is to destroy UNSCR 2231 and Iran nuclear deal, adding that the UNSC once again indicated the US isolation. Earlier, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed that Washington delivered a letter to the UN for snapback invocation against Iran to bring ...

IRNA - President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that Iran's power of diplomacy would defeat the US in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and the Islamic Republic would achieve success. Rouhani held a meeting on Tuesday with the country's senior media executives on the occasion of the Government Week. Managing Directorof the Islamic ...

MNA - Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission dismissed any legal right for the US to push a so-called snapback mechanism in JCPOA to restore UN sanctions against Iran. The Americans have no legal right and argument to push for activating such a mechanism, Mojtaba Zonnour said on Monday. He pointed ...

MNA The US attempt to restore sanctions on Iran might trigger a serious scandal at the UN Security Council and eventually undermine its authority, said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. "We are working with our US partners and other Security Council members in New York and in capitals. We understand that the vast majority of nations realize ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a video posted on his Twitter account explained why Washington has no right to demand the return of all UN sanctions against Tehran through the so-called snapback mechanism stipulated in the 2015 nuclear deal. The video starts with US President Donald Trumps 2018 announcement that the United ...