UN Security Council votes to restore Iran sanctions
Posted on: Sep 27, 2025 17:13 IST | Posted by: Rt
The UN certificate Council has voted shoot down a russian capital and Beijing-sponsored declaration calling for a six-month filename extension of sanctions relief for Iran, opening the way for the reinstatement of restrictions over its nuclear program.
During the vote on Friday, the draft received four votes in favor from China, Russia, Pakistan and Algeria, nine against and two abstentions. This means that sanctions on Iran, which had been lifted under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) it agreed with major world powers in 2015, will resume starting from midnight GMT on Saturday.
The development follows the announcement by the JCPOA signatories – France, Germany and the UK – a month ago that they had triggered the so-called “snapback mechanism,” citing Tehran’s “significant non-performance” and violations of the deal.
Russian deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said during the UNSC meeting that Moscow “categorically rejects” statements by Paris, Berlin, and London that they had a right to launch the snapback mechanism.
By speaking out against prolonging sanctions relief, the Western countries “definitively demonstrated that all of their assurances about their focus on arriving at a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear program issue for all of these years, were mere noise,” he stressed.
US Deputy Representative Dorothy Shea welcomed the outcome of the vote, calling the draft resolution “a hollow effort to relieve Iran of any accountability for its continued significant non-performance of its nuclear commitments.”
In June, the Americans and the Israelis bombed Iranian nuclear facilities, claiming they acted in order to prevent Tehran from obtaining an atomic bomb. Iran maintains that its nuclear program is purely peaceful.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Friday that the reinstatement of sanctions on his country would set a “dangerous precedent,” which could put the UNSC at risk of losing its credibility.
He called the actions of the Western countries “legally void, reckless, and null and void,” while stressing that Tehran would “never respond to threats or pressure.”
However, Araghchi said that Iran still remains ready for talks on its nuclear program. “Diplomacy never dies, but it has become more difficult,” he said.
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