Addressing a parliamentary meeting on Tuesday, Qalibaf decried the European troika’s move to trigger the snapback mechanism of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
He said the Iranian officials have repeatedly explained the illegality of this measure, and that other UN Security Council members, including Russia and China, have officially confirmed this stance.
Qalibaf said it is clear that the three European countries, having failed to fulfill their own JCPOA commitments, had no right to activate the snapback mechanism.
“As a result, they illegally began the process of reimposing UN Security Council resolutions. Accordingly, Iran must take a deterrent action to impose costs on these unlawful European measures, in order to change the adversary’s decision to trigger the snapback mechanism. The Islamic Republic’s unified decision in this regard will be announced and implemented soon,” he added.
In a new escalation, the European troika of the UK, France, and Germany (EU3) has formally sent a letter to the UN Security Council announcing the activation of the so-called snapback mechanism, a step that seeks to re-impose international sanctions on Iran. The announcement marks the most serious move yet by the three European states against Tehran since the US withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018.
Iranian officials have denounced the measure as illegal and politically motivated, stressing that Europe has no standing to invoke snapback after failing to fulfill its own commitments under the nuclear deal. Tehran has warned that such a step will compel a decisive reciprocal response, undermine cooperation with the IAEA, and severely damage the credibility of the Security Council itself.