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The Secretary of State of the United States, Mike Pompeo, announced in the early hours of Sunday that the United Nations sanctions against Iran “have entered into force again”, warning of “consequences” if other countries do not implement these sanctions, after the European countries will confirm their rejection of the measure.
“If the member states of the United Nations do not fulfill their duties to implement these sanctions, the United States is prepared to use its internal powers to impose consequences for these failures and to ensure that Iran does not reap the benefits of the UN ban on them. action, “Pompeo said.
Pompeo made clear that activating the return to the original state clause reimposes almost all sanctions on Iran, including those previously abolished by the United Nations, including the arms embargo.
Pompeo added that thanks to the re-imposition of sanctions, Iran is now obliged to halt uranium enrichment and heavy water-related activities, emphasizing that his country will announce new measures in the coming days to strengthen the imposition of sanctions and hold accountable to their offenders.
As for the representative of France to the United Nations, Nicolas de Riviere, said in a tweet on Twitter, commenting on the decision of the United States, that France, Germany and Great Britain will remain committed to the implementation of the entire nuclear agreement as the only way forward to contain Iran’s nuclear program, emphasizing that the lifting of UN sanctions on Iran will continue and that Iran will continue. You will remain responsible until you fulfill your obligations.
In turn, Dmitry Poliansky, Russia’s deputy representative to the United Nations, said in a tweet that it was painful to see a great country “insulting itself in this way and stubbornly opposing” other members of the Security Council.
He also said that the United States is determined to undermine international law by imposing its selfish will on others, adding: “We said clearly last August that Washington’s claims about the activation of the mechanism to return to the original state are illegitimate, are they deaf? “
Earlier, Britain, France and Germany confirmed in a letter to the Security Council their rejection of the US measure, noting that any decision or measure to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran would have no legal effect.
The three countries affirmed that they will continue to abide by the nuclear deal with Tehran and will work to preserve it.
The Iranian position
On the other hand, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday in statements to Iranian state television that the United States’ measure to restore international sanctions on Iran is only propaganda as part of President Donald Trump’s election campaign. and it has no real impact.
Zarif added that Washington had not reimposed the UN sanctions and ruled out that secondary sanctions would affect Tehran’s arms purchases from China and Russia.
He also said: “The Americans are acting like thugs and imposing sanctions … The international community must decide how to deal with this harassment.”
In turn, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Majid Takht Rawanji, said in a tweet on Twitter that the “false and illegal deadline” set by the United States to reimpose sanctions has passed and that members of the Security Council they continue to adhere to their position that the United States is not a party to the nuclear deal. And that his claim for the right to resort to the dispute resolution mechanism and return to the original state is void, according to himself.
Rawangi added that the United States violated the nuclear agreement and Security Council Resolution 2231, and was still swimming against the current, and that this would only bring further international isolation, he said.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hossein Salami, said yesterday that any US aggression against Iran would be met with a major attack on all US bases in the region.
He added that his country is capable of targeting the interests of the United States in the region, occupying all its bases and inflicting heavy losses on the ranks of the American military, highlighting that Iran’s defensive force is designed to face any aggression from the United States and their allied countries.
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