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Iran warned on Monday that if the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) takes steps to implement “Snapback” sanctions, it would retaliate as the nations took further action to prevent Tehran’s nuclear development.
“There is a lack of legal and political basis in danger to use the Snapback mechanism and will be met with a fair and proportional response from the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Bagai claimed during a Press conference, according to a Reuters report.
Bagei did not expand how Iran would retaliate, but there are frequent warnings from security experts that there are threats that the time is going on to implement the approved mechanism on 18 October under the conditions set by the 2015 nuclear deal.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmiel Bagei speaks during a press conference at Tehran and issues the United Nations’ Snapback sanctions on 14 July 2025. (Etah Canre/AFP via Getty Image)
Iran claims that its president was injured in the Israeli air strike last month.
The comments coincided with a 10 -year anniversary of the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA), originally to prevent Iran’s atomic ambitions, but some argued that it was insufficient to prevent Tehran adequately.
Under the terms of JCPOA, any signatoror can unilaterally call snapback restrictions if Iran is violated to the terms of the agreement.
Although the US, with the UK, France, Germany, China and Russia, signed the 2015 deal, was believed to be unable to use the system after President Donald Trump returned from the agreement during the first term of President Donald Trump in 2018.
Despite repeated calls by the US to implement Snapback – which will legally implement all 15 United Nations members in the council including Russia to re -disclose the restrictions on Iran – no one has taken steps to implement sanctions on UNSC or JCPOA.
“One of the few good things about JCPOA is that it reverses the veto in the sense that you really need only one of the permanent members, which is capable of doing so,” Behnam Ben Taleu, Senior Director of the Iran Eysses of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, told Fox News Digital. “But why is no one doing this? This is because it is a risky step.
“I think this is a meaningful step, but we have to be honest – it’s a risky step,” he said.
Ben Talebu said that the Non-existence of Iran’s most potential response to serious restrictions under the Snapback mechanism will abandon the treaty of nuclear weapons (NPTs)-an international agreement that more than 190 countries have signed, either promised to transfer weapons with weapons for other recipients, which are not illegally giving ATOMIC.
Members of the Security Council attend a meeting on the threats for international peace and security at the United Nations in New York City on 13 June 2025. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Time is going on to prevent Iran from making atomic bombs: ‘dangerous area’
The terms of the agreement are monitored by the United Nations’s International Atomic Energy Agency – which Iran has already suspended cooperation with the US and the Israeli attack against its nuclear program last month.
“In a world in which Iran’s most possible response is to leave NPT, one has the ability to reduce Iran at least to reduce more military threats, or at least the US and Israel’s credibility, or the credibility of the international community, the ability to move forward against Iran,” said Talebu.
“The problem is a shortage of a game plan. Has the US provided a game plan to Europe, a road map for post-snapback?” He said, he needs to have a big strategy for the next stages, restrictions should be reinforced.
Although the US assesses that Iran’s nuclear program has been stopped for two years, experts are sure that Tehran’s atomic ambitions have not been stopped, and its relationship for terrorist networks and adverse nations means that it is a top security concern.
Trump has said that he is still committed to interacting with Iran on his nuclear program, although the question remains on how long he will allow the conversation to be taken out before the European nation like UK, France or Germany, not only the Snapback sanctions before the October deadline, but before the Russia takes control of the Russia UNSC President’s control.
Pushing through the Snapback mechanism is expected to be about six weeks.
A banner depicting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is placed next to a ballistic missile at Baharistan Square in Tehran on September 26, 2024. (Hosin baris/Middle East Picture/AFP via Getty Image)
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On Sunday, reports suggested that German Chancellor Frederick Merz may soon call snapback measures as Tuesday, and the US Ambassador of Israel Mike Hakabi made the move champion in a post on X.
But Fox News Digital could not verify these claims independently and the German Ministry of External Affairs told the Israeli news outlet JNS that the claims were wrong.
The Chancellor’s office did not immediately answer Fox News Digital questions.
