Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned Washington attempts to “modernize” JCPOA and to extend the arms embargo against Iran which ends in October after an unsuccessful UN Security Council vote on an American resolution.
The United States will increase diplomatic consultations over the next month to reimpose the Iran arms embargo, State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus told Al Arabiya English.
Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a video message on Twitter on Saturday night entitled "In their own words" raised the question: Does the United States can invoke UN Security Council Resolution 2231 as a party to Iran's nuclear deal?
The Trump administration was left isolated on the world stage as foreign allies and competitors alike rejected its demand to restore UN sanctions on Iran Thursday.
Belgium announced that the US government could not trigger a snapback of Iran's sanctions through the JCPoA since it "ceased its participation" to the JCPoA in May 2018.
Deputy Foreign Minister of Islamic Republic of Iran Seyed Abbas Araghchi said that the US request to the UN Security Council to ‘snap back’ sanctions against Iran is null and void.
China has said the United States has no right to demand ‘snapback’ of UN sanctions against Iran.
Russia requested a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran on Friday, diplomats said, as the United States sought to restore all UN sanctions on Iran in a move rejected by Moscow.
France, Germany, and Britain will not support a US demand to the United Nations to reimpose sanctions on Iran over accusations it violated its 2015 nuclear deal, they said in a joint statement on Thursday.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has sent a formal request to the UN Security Council to ‘snap back’ sanctions against Iran, claiming Tehran violated the 2015 nuclear deal that Washington has unilaterally ditched.