Iran warns of reprisals if the UN imposes nuclear snapback sanctions

Iran warned on Monday that it would retaliate if the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) took measures to impose “Snapback” sanctions as nations reflect on the additional action to stop Tehran's nuclear development.

“The threat of using the Snapback mechanism lacks legal and political base and will meet an appropriate and proportional response of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaeil Baghaei, during a press conference, according to a Reuters report.

Baghaei did not expand in how Iran would retaliate, but their threats come in the middle of repeated warnings of security experts that time is running out to enforce the sanction mechanism on October 18 under the terms issued by the 2015 nuclear agreement.

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The comments coincided with the 10th anniversary of the Comprehensive Comprehensive Plan (JCPOA), which was originally intended to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions, but that some have argued was insufficient to properly deter Tehran.

According to the terms of the JCPOA, any signatory can unilaterally call Snapback sanctions if it is found that Iran has violated the terms of the agreement.

Although the United States, which, together with the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and Russia, signed the 2015 agreement, was considered by the UN and other members of JCPOA who could not use the mechanism after Washington withdrew from the agreement in 2018 during the first mandate of President Donald Trump.

Despite the repeated calls from the USA to enforce Snapback, which legally enforces the 15 UN members in the Council, including Russia, to impose the sanctions on Iran, nobody at the UNSC or JCPOA has still taken measures to enforce the sanctions.

“I would say that one of the few good things about the JCPOA is that it invests the veto to the veto in the sense that it really only needs one of the permanent members to be able to do this,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of the Foundation for the Democrames Defense Foundation, Iran Ortogram, Fox News Digital said. “But why is nobody doing it? It's because it's a risky movement.

“I think it is a movement that is worth it, but we have to be honest, it is a risky movement,” he added.

Ben Treeblu explained that Iran's most probable response to severe sanctions under the Snapback mechanism would be its abandonment of the Nuclear Weapons Non -Proliferation Treaty (NPT): an international agreement that more than 190 nations have signed, promising not transferring weapons to another receiver by nations with nuclear capacity, or not developing non -nuclear weapons, among other commitments, among other commitments, among others Commitments.

The members of the Security Council attend a meeting on threats to international peace and security at the United Nations on June 13, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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The terms of the agreement are monitored by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency, which Iran has already suspended cooperation with following US and Israeli attacks against its nuclear program last month.

“In a world in which Iran's most likely response is to abandon TNP, one must trust at least in the ability of military threats to dissuade Iran even more, or at least the credibility of the military options of the United States and Israel, or those of the international community, against Iran in the future,” said Ben Treeblu.

“The problem is the lack of a game plan. Is the United States a game plan, a post-napback road map?” He added, noting that there must be a much greater strategy for the next steps if the sanctions were reinforced.

Although the United States evaluates that Iran's nuclear program has been stunted for up to two years, experts are still convinced that Tehran's atomic ambitions have not been deterred, and their ties with terrorist networks and adverse nations mean that it remains a higher security concern.

Trump has said that he is still committed to negotiating with Iran in his nuclear program, although there are questions about how long it will continue to allow negotiations to crawl to a European nation such as the United Kingdom, France or Germany must intervene to promulgate Snapback sanctions not only before the deadline of October, but Russia takes control of the presidency of the CSNU that month.

The Snapback mechanism is expected to push a process of approximately six weeks.

A banner that represents the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, is placed next to a ballistic missile in the Baharestán Square in Tehran on September 26, 2024. (Hossein Beris/Middle East/AFP through Getty Images)

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Sunday's reports suggested that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz could call Snapback measures as soon as Tuesday, and the United States ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee defended the movement in a position in X.

But Fox News Digital could not independently verify these statements and the German Foreign Ministry told Israeli Jns communication that the statements were incorrect.

The Chancellor's office did not immediately answer Fox News Digital questions.