Gov’t spox: Necessary decisions made to respond to snapback invocation
Iran’s government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said on Tuesday that the government has made necessary decisions to deal with the consequences of the activation of the snapback mechanism by European powers.
Mohajerani said that government made use of all diplomatic capacities to prevent the activation of the mechanism, which led to reimposition of international sanctions on Iran.
She said that the government had predicted the activation of the mechanism by the three European powers – France, Germany and the UK – and has changed its approach and made the necessary decisions for the country’s current situation.
On September 9, Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reached an agreement aimed at paving the way for resumption of cooperation which had been suspended following the unprovoked Israeli-American attacks against key Iranian nuclear facilities in June.
The agreement with the IAEA was signed as a goodwill gesture by Iran to prevent the activation of the snapback mechanism by the three European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal.
Despite Iran’s efforts to prevent the European move, the three countries invoked the mechanism which paved the way for the reimposition of international sanctions that had been removed under the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Iran has rejected the reimposition of sanctions as “entirely unfounded, unlawful, and invalid” claims by the United States and the European countries.