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ASV Secretary of State Maiks pompeo announced the resumption of all previously suspended UN sanctions against Iran. The administration of US President Donald Trump also said that those UN member states that do not comply with these sanctions will have to face the consequences.
True, only the United States currently believes that these UN sanctions have been renewed. Other major powers, including Russia and China, have challenged the Washington statement. France, Great Britain and Germany in a joint letter To the UN Security Council noted on Friday that any decision to renew sanctions would have no legal effect and that Iran will remain in force after 20 September.
In mid-August, the United States failed to secure support for a draft UN Security Council resolution extending the 13-year conventional arms embargo on Iran, which is due to end on 18 October. The United States then called for the resumption of UN sanctions on Iran, which were lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal, while France, Britain and Germany said they opposed it.
Sanctions against Iran were lifted under an agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program signed in 2015 by Iran, the permanent members of the UN Security Council, the United States, France, Russia, China and the United Kingdom, and Germany. The agreement also does not extend the arms embargo.
France, Britain and Germany believe that the US has no right to demand the resumption of sanctions, as Washington withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018 following the Trump decision. Following its withdrawal from the nuclear deal, the United States imposed sanctions on Iran, which has gradually withdrawn from the terms of the nuclear deal.
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