- Great Britain, France and Germany write a letter to the UN Secretary General.
- Committed to preventing Iran to develop nuclear weapons, he says.
- Countries warn about the use of “Snapback Mechanism” of the 2015 agreement.
Great Britain, France and Germany have told the United Nations that they are ready to reimpose non -mandatory sanctions to Iran about their nuclear program if there is no diplomatic solution at the end of August, according to a joint letter obtained by AFP.
The letter to the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and the UN Security Council, says that the three European powers are “committed to using all diplomatic tools at our disposal to ensure that Iran will not develop a nuclear weapon” unless Tehran meets the deadline.
The foreign ministers of the so -called E3 group threaten to use a “Snapback mechanism” that was part of an International 2015 agreement with Iran that relieved the sanctions of the UN Security Council.
According to the agreement, which ends in October, any part of the agreement can restore sanctions.
The three have intensified warnings to Iran about their suspension of cooperation with the UN Nuclear Control Agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
That occurred after Israel launched a 12 -day war with Iran in June, looking partly destroying its nuclear capacity. The United States organized its own bombing raid during the war.
“We have made it clear that if Iran is not willing to reach a diplomatic solution before the end of August 2025, or does not take the opportunity of an extension, E3 is prepared to trigger the Snapback mechanism,” foreign ministers Jean-Noel Barrot de France, David Lammy of Great Britain and Johann Wadephul of Germany, said in the letter.
The three countries were signing the 2015 Comprehensive Comprehensive Plan with the United States, China and Russia that offered the carrot and stuck agreement so that they will delay their enrichment of uranium necessary for a nuclear weapon.
President Donald Trump took the United States from the agreement in 2018 during his first term and ordered new sanctions.
European countries said they would adhere to the agreement. But its letter establishes commitments that ministers say Iran has violated, including the construction of a uranium stock more than 40 times the level allowed under the 2015 agreement.
“The E3 remains completely committed to a diplomatic resolution to the crisis caused by Iran's nuclear program and will continue to be committed to the purpose of achieving a negotiated solution.
“We are equally ready and we have unequivocal legal motives, to notify the significant breach of JCPOA's commitments for Iran […] thus triggering the Snapback mechanism, if a satisfactory solution is not reached at the end of August 2025, “the ministers wrote in the letter reported for the first time by the Financial Times.
There is no legal right to restore sanctions
The United States had already begun contacts with Iran, who denies the search for a weapon, about its nuclear activities.
But these were arrested for Israeli strikes in June at Iran's nuclear facilities.
Even before the attacks, international powers had expressed concerns about the lack of access awarded to the IEIs of the IAEA.
Iran stopped all cooperation with the OIEA after the attacks, but announced that the agency deputy director in Tehran was expected for conversations about a new cooperation agreement.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sent a letter to the UN last month saying that European countries did not have the legal right to restore sanctions.
European ministers called this “unfounded” accusation.
