Issuing a statement on Sunday morning, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran stressed that it considers the action by the three European countries (the United Kingdom, Germany, France) and the United States in abusing the snapback to be unlawful and unfounded, emphasizing that UN Security Council Resolution 2231 and the restrictions contained therein concerning Iran’s peaceful nuclear program must be considered to have terminated at the scheduled time.
The ministry added that while the three European countries, at the instigation and under pressure from the United States, set in motion the mechanism known as the “snapback,” they themselves have committed material non‑performance of their JCPOA obligations as a result of persistent and significant failures in fulfilling those obligations, and have abused the JCPOA dispute settlement process. In addition, by explicitly or implicitly supporting the military aggression of the Zionist regime and the United States against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities that were subject to the JCPOA and under the Agency’s safeguards regime, the three European countries have flagrantly violated international law and the non‑proliferation regime, particularly paragraph 4 of Article 2 of the UN Charter, and have explicitly trampled on the provisions of the JCPOA and UN Security Council Resolution 2231. Accordingly, the European parties to the JCPOA, like the United States, have in bad faith committed gross and continuous violations of the JCPOA and have made no bona fide efforts in dispute settlement.
The move to revive terminated resolutions is not only legally baseless and unjustifiable, but is also completely unacceptable from moral and logical perspectives. The peaceful nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran has already been comprehensively addressed in UN Security Council Resolution 2231 and its annex, the JCPOA, and its ten‑year timeframe should be regarded as having ended at the foreseen date, 18 October 2025, it added.
It recalled that over the past two decades the Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly demonstrated its commitment to dialogue and diplomacy to resolve issues raised concerning Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and has shown its readiness to find a logical and fair solution that guarantees the rights and interests of the Iranian people to peaceful uses of nuclear energy while at the same time providing the necessary transparency and assurance regarding the peaceful nature of the country's nuclear activities. In this regard, Iran, in addition to faithfully implementing the JCPOA from 2015 until 2019 (i.e., until one year after the unlawful US withdrawal), organized its curative measures pursuant to paragraphs 26 and 36 of the JCPOA from May 2019 in such a way that, should the European parties and the United States return to their JCPOA commitments, Iran could immediately revert to its commitments as well.
The ministry underlined that over the past four years, Iran has also put forward multiple initiatives and proposals to re‑implement JCPOA commitments by all parties, or to conclude another negotiated understanding to address the outstanding issues concerning Iran’s nuclear program, all of which failed due to the lack of seriousness and bad faith of the three European countries or the United States.
The military attacks by the Zionist regime and the United States on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June and the accompaniment of the aggressors by the three European countries represented the peak of these three countries’ flagrant breaches of their JCPOA commitments, accompanied by manifest bad faith, it said.
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