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.
Without European support, it is not clear how the United States alone would enforce UN sanctions against Iran while world powers are trying to save the 2015 nuclear deal.
The former US president called the current president a "very inappropriate" option for the US presidency.
Democrats officially nominated former Vice President Joe Biden to be their presidential nominee by a virtual roll call on the second night of the Democratic National Convention.
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will likely travel to New York on Thursday to seek a return of all UN sanctions on Iran and meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, diplomats and a UN official said.
Iraqi prime minister left the country for Washington on Tuesday, heading a high-rank delegation.
The latest poll in the United States shows that Biden is 9 percent ahead of his Republican rival.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reiterated that the US turning to Dispute Resolution Mechanism in 2231 has no legal base.
US senator from Connecticut state, Chris Murphy tweeted that the failure of his country's anti-Iran resolution at the UN Security Council was a sign of Washington's weakness.