At issue is the Iranian nuclear program
Berlin, London, and Paris are ready to activate the Iran Sanction Imposition mechanism if no negotiated solutions are found for the Iranian nuclear program by the end of August.
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Germany, the United Kingdom and France emphasize in a letter to the United Nations that, “if they will not want to reach a diplomatic solution [relativamente ao seu programa nuclear] By the end of August 2025, or not taking the opportunity for an extension, ”they are“ ready to trigger the mechanism ”that allows us to restore international sanctions against Iran, according to the letter, obtained by the France-Presse (AFP) agency, confirming information from the Jornal Financial Times.
German diplomacy chief Johann Wadephul and French counterparts Jean-Noël Barrot, and British, David Lammy, claim to be “fully committed to a diplomatic resolution of the crisis caused by the Iranian nuclear program and the conversations will continue to reach a negotiated solution.”
The letter, addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the Security Council, appears two months after Israeli and American attacks on nuclear facilities in Iran, which ended the negotiations started between Teerão and Washington, on the one hand, and the discussions with E3-the group of the three European countries-on the other.
After this 12 -day war, Iran suspended cooperation with the Atomic International Energy Agency (AIEA).
Iranian Foreign Minister ABBAS ARACHHI announced last Sunday that an AIEA Deputy Director-General was expected in Tehran to discuss a new cooperation framework.
Also Araghchi sent a letter to the United Nations last month, in which he stated that E3 had no legitimacy to reactivate the sanction mechanism.
In response, the three ministers now wrote this letter, sent to the UN on Tuesday, considering “unfounded” the statements of the Iranian counterpart.
The three countries, as participants in the 2015 Treaty known by the acronym JCPOA, “would clearly and without ambiguity, the legal justification for using the relevant provisions of Resolution 2231 (2015) of the United Nations Security Council to trigger the mechanism,” they argue in the missive.
France, the United Kingdom and Germany are, along with the United States, China and Russia, members of a nuclear agreement celebrated with Iran in 2015, which provided for important restrictions on the Iranian nuclear program, in exchange for a gradual UN sanctions survey.
The United States were unilaterally withdrew from this text in 2018 and reimposed their sanctions, but E3 countries committed their agreement and said they wanted to continue trade with Iran.
The sanctions of the UN and the European Union were not, consequently, restored.
In the letter sent to the UN, the ministers include a “non -exhaustive” list of nuclear commitments assumed under the agreement signed in 2015 that “Iran did not respect”, in particular, accumulating a total stock of enriched uranium “more than 40 times” higher than the limit set by the treaty.
