Nuclear Official Downplays E3 Threat of Activating Snapback Mechanism
Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi described the European countries' threat to trigger the snapback mechanism— which fully reinstates anti-Tehran sanctions— as "empty and hollow", and advised Western countries to change the course.
"The unjust use of the trigger mechanism will ensue an appropriate and severe response from Iran," Kamalvani warned on Tuesday.The official said the return of UN sanctions on Iran through the "snapback" mechanism is part of Western countries' pressure on Iran over its peaceful nuclear program."One of the pressure tools that Western countries are talking about these days is the use of the trigger mechanism. It is truly ridiculous that they want to punish Iran for a violation that others committed," he added.
Tehran has proved the peaceful nature of its nuclear program to the world by signing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with six world powers. However, Washington’s exit in May 2018 and its subsequent re-imposition of sanctions against Tehran left the future of the accord in limbo.Iran started to reduce its commitments under the JCPOA in a series of pre-announced and clear steps after witnessing the other parties' failure to secure its interests under the accord.Tehran and the European trio of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany (E3) have been conducting on-again, off-again talks since 2021, three years after the United States unilaterally left the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers under its former President Donald Trump.The three European parties to the nuclear agreement then failed to live up to their promise of bringing Washington back into the accord.Iran has declared that its nuclear program remains purely peaceful as always and that Tehran had no intention of developing nuclear weapons as a matter of an Islamic and state principal and has no hidden nuclear program.
Kamalvandi said, "If they had fulfilled their commitments and the sanctions had been lifted, and if the US had not withdrawn from the JCPOA, naturally Iran would have fulfilled its commitments.""If Iran has stopped its commitments, it is because it does not benefit from the general rule of the agreement," he added. Kamalvani dismissed the "snapback" of UN sanctions on Iran as a "hollow and empty threat"."The Islamic Republic of Iran considers the trigger mechanism as a tool of pressure like other economic and military threats and will certainly stand firm against them and defend the country's rights," the nuclear official continued.Iran, Kamalvandi said, is always ready for engagement, but it does not accept pressure under any circumstances."The general policies of our country have been specified by the Supreme Leader, and naturally, we pursue the country's interests within the framework of those policies," he added.
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