Rubio urge Iran to speak, welcomes European nations

France, Great Britain and Germany on Thursday activated a mechanism to reimpose the sanctions of the United Nations on Iran for not fulfilling the commitments about its nuclear program.

The three countries notified the UN Security Council that “believe that Iran has a significant performance of their commitments” under a 2015 nuclear agreement and “therefore invokes the process known as the ‘Snapback’ mechanism, which begins a 30 -day process to impose suspended sanctions a decade ago.

From President Trump He brought the United States unilaterally out of the treatment During his first term, Iran has constantly abandoned commitments He agreed under the 2015 nuclear agreement, which was negotiated by the then President Barack Obama, together with the European countries “E3” and the European Union.

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The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, said Thursday that Washington was still looking for direct conversations with Iran at the end of his nuclear program following the E3 that triggered the so -called “Snapback” mechanism to reimpose UN sanctions.

Rubio welcomed the measure, which for a long time has been driven by Trump, but said: “At the same time, the United States remains available for direct commitment to Iran, in promoting a peaceful and lasting resolution for Iran’s nuclear problem.”

“Snapback does not contradict our good preparation for diplomacy, it only improves it,” Rubio said in a statement, praising “the leadership of our E3 allies in this effort.”

“I urge Iranian leaders to take the immediate measures necessary to ensure that their nation never obtains a nuclear weapon; to walk along the path of peace; and, by extension, to advance in prosperity for the Iranian people,” Rubio said in a statement.

Trump in his second term has turned sharply in different directions on Iran, insisting that he sought a negotiated agreement but then ordering US air attacks in nuclear sites in support of an Israeli military campaign.

Referring to the decision of the E3, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that Tehran “would properly respond to this illegal and unjustified action by the three European countries, to protect and guarantee their national rights and interests.”

His office said he had delivered that message in a phone call with his French, British and German counterparts, adding that he had asked the three countries to “properly correct this wrong decision in the coming days.”

Although Araghchi did not specify what retaliation measures Iran could take, Tehran previously warned that such movement could lead to the exclusion of the European powers of any future negotiation on Iran’s nuclear program.

Talking to News themezone’ Imtiaz Tyab earlier this summer, Araghchi said He was Doubtful that conversations with the United States resume rapidly, but said that “the doors of diplomacy never closed.”

The movement of the European trio took place a few days after the Iranian and European diplomats had conversations in Geneva, the second since then Israel’s attack to Iran who began a 12 -day war In June.

E3 had been threatening in recent weeks to activate the so -called “snapback” mechanism, citing Iran’s continuous breach with its commitments under the 2015 nuclear agreement.

That agreement was torpedoed in 2018 when Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the agreement and slapped the paralyzing sanctions to Iran.

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