Writing on his X account late on Sunday, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi released a report on a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, President of the Security Council, EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas and members of the UN Security Council, in which the top diplomat outlined why the E3 lacks any legal, political, and moral standing to invoke the mechanisms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2231.
Through their actions and statements, including providing political and material support to the recent unprovoked and illegal military aggression of the Israeli regime and the US, rejection of the main pillars of the JCPOA, and their longstanding and ongoing failure to uphold their commitments, the E3 have relinquished their role as participants in the JCPOA, making any attempt to reinstate terminated UNSC Resolutions null and void, the official said.
Iran responded to the unilateral US withdrawal from the JCPOA by first exhausting the accord’s dispute resolution mechanisms before gradually implementing remedial measures under Paragraph 36 of the JCPOA, going to great lengths to convince other then-participants to return to compliance with their obligations, Araqchi added.
However, he said, “The E3 have reneged on their commitments and actively contributed to the so-called U maximum pressure policy, and recently, the military aggression against our people too.”
Actors with such a record ought to be the last to claim good faith. The E3 cannot and should not be allowed to undermine the credibility of the UN Security Council by abusing a Resolution to which they themselves have not been committed, he said.
The E3 must heed their own advice to the US in their letter of August 20, 2020, and refrain from any action that would only deepen divisions in the Security Council or that would have serious adverse consequences on its work, he added.
As stressed in my letter, Araqchi said, Iran has shown that it is capable of defeating any delusional “dirty work” but has always been prepared to reciprocate meaningful diplomacy in good faith.
Replying to Araqchi’s message on X, Russia’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, wrote, “Indeed, the E3 has no legal or moral right to launch the so-called snapback mechanism to reimpose previous anti-Iranian sanctions.”
IRNA