Four countries vote to prevent the sanctions from being reintroduced, while nine vote against the relief of sanctions.
Posted on September 19, 2025
The United Nations Security Council has voted to not permanently raise economic sanctions to Iran over its nuclear program, delivering a great economic blow that Tehran states is “politically partial.”
A resolution on Friday to block the sanctions fell into the Security Council by a vote of four to nine, which means that European sanctions will return before September 28 if a significant agreement is not reached beforehand.
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Russia, China, Pakistan and Algeria voted to prevent the sanctions from reintrating, while nine members of the CSNU voted against the sanctions. Two countries abstained.
The vote follows a 30 -day process launched at the end of August by Great Britain, France and Germany, known as the E3, to restore the sanctions unless they will meet their demands.
Iran says that Europeans misuse the JCPOA mechanism '
Iranian officials have accused the European trio of abusing the dispute mechanism contained in the 2015 Treaty on the non -proliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT), which allows the application of sanctions under a “Snapback mechanism”.
“What Europeans are doing is politically and politically motivated … They are wrong at different levels when trying to misuse the mechanism integrated into the Comprehensive Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA),” said Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Saeed Khatibzadeh.
The Europeans offered to delay Snapback for up to six months if they will restored access for UN nuclear inspectors and devoted himself to conversations with the United States.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran had presented a “reasonable and processable plan” insisted that Iran remain committed to the TNP.
But the E3 accuses Tehran of violating its nuclear commitments, even through the construction of uranium storage of more than 40 times the level allowed under the JCPOA. The UN Nuclear Surveillance Board also ruled in June that Iran did not respect international nuclear safeguards.
'The clock is running for high level diplomacy'
The CSNU vote that allows the penalties to retreat is not the “final of the negotiations”, since the parties have just over a week to reach a last minute agreement, said the diplomatic editor of Al Jazeera, James Bays, informing the UN.
“It is the week in which all world leaders are here in New York for the high -level meeting of the UN General Assembly, so it prepares the scenario for high -level diplomacy between Iran and particularly in the three European countries,” Bays said. But “we are reaching the end of this high -risk diplomacy, and the clock is really working.”
According to the JCPOA, signed by Iran, the United States, China, Russia and the EU, Tehran agreed to stop its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions. But the agreement unraveled in 2018 after the then US president Donald Trump withdrew and reimpose unilateral sanctions.
Tensions intensified more at the beginning of this summer, when Israel launched a 12 -day war against Iran, with the Israeli and American forces that hit several nuclear facilities.
Iran has repeatedly denied the persecution of nuclear weapons, but affirmed its right to pacificly pursue nuclear energy.
