Measures include a weapon embargo and the freezing of assets and banking activities of companies and individuals linked to the nuclear and ballistic programs of the Islamic Republic
O classified as “unjustifiable” this Sunday (28), the restoration of the UN sanctions on its After the failure of negotiations with Western powers, and appealed to other countries not to implement them. The measures include a weapon embargo and the freezing of assets and banking activities of companies and individuals linked to nuclear and ballistic programs Iran. It appeals to all member countries to implement these measures, defined at previous resolutions. But practical implementation depends on each nation, and it is unclear as China, which buys significant amounts of Iranian oil will react.
A It has warned that it will not implement these sanctions, which, like China, considers illegal. On Friday, both powers tried unsuccessfully to postpone the deadline. The restrictions, which remained again on Sunday at 00h00 GMT (21h00 on Saturday, Brasília), are in accordance with a clause of the 2015 International Agreement that limits the nuclear program of Iran to Civil Purchase. Iran claims that its nuclear activities have no military purpose, and the Iranian Foreign Ministry has stated that the reactivation of sanctions lacks legal basis and is “unjustifiable.”
These sanctions represent a hard blow to the Iranian economy. This Sunday, the local currency, the Rial, reached its historical minimum compared to the dollar, according to several specialized sites. United Kingdom, France and Germany, the E3 group of countries, activated the snapback mechanism in August, which allows them to restore sanctions in 30 days. The European triad E3 believes that Tehran has not made “concrete gestures” to explain the nature of its nuclear program.
The Iranian nuclear program has long damaged Tehran’s relations with Western powers, which, together with Israel, accuse the Islamic Republic of seeking to develop atomic weapons. In June, during a 12 -day conflict, the Israeli army attacked several targets linked to Iran’s nuclear and missile programs, a campaign to which the United States came together, bombarding the nuclear plants of Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan on June 22.
This Israeli offensive interrupted indirect negotiations in progress between Iran and the United States. Israel declared on Sunday that the restoration of sanctions is “an important step forward in response to the continuous violations of Iran.” “The goal of course: from preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons,” added the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas insisted that, although the European bloc implements sanctions, the return of punitive measures “should not mean the end of diplomacy with Iran.”
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian told Reporters in New York on Saturday before the deadline that the United States had asked his country to give up all his uranium enriched in exchange for a three -month moratorium in the sanctions. “This is totally unacceptable,” he said. Russian chancellor Serguei Lavrov said in a speech at the UN General Assembly that the rejection of the Russian and Chinese text that postponed the restoration of sanctions “exposed the West policy of sabotaging the search for constructive solutions.”
*With information from AFP
