UNSC president: Guterres to report on JCPOA-related resolution
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to represent a report to the UN Security Council on the implementation of Resolution 2231, which endorsed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, Slovenia’s UN Ambassador Samuel Zbogar, president of the 15-member body, said on Monday.
Responding to a question about next steps for the so-called snapback mechanism triggered by the three European parties to the JCPOA to reinstate UN sanctions on Iran, Zbogar said the Security Council would receive a report from Guterres on the implementation of Resolution 2231 this month and a meeting would likely be called afterward.
Zbogar, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council, said a committee would be formed early in 2026 regarding the sanctions.
“That might be challenging […] because you need a consensus,” he said, noting that council members did not agree among themselves on that issue.
Resolution 2231 endorsed the historic nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers. Upon ratification, it mandated suspension of nuclear-related sanctions against Iran.
The United States, though, unilaterally withdrew from the deal in 2018 and reimposed and reinforced its sanctions on Iran and forced the European parties to the deal – France, Germany and Britain – to abide by them.
On August 28, the European trio instigated the snapback mechanism, which led to reimposition of international sanctions on Iran.
Iran, China, and Russia in a joint letter to Guterres in October affirmed termination of the resolution, saying that they “affirm that in accordance with operative paragraph 8 of Resolution 2231, all its provisions are terminated after 18 October 2025.”
The date, therefore, “marks the end of the Security Council’s consideration of the Iranian nuclear issue,” the countries’ envoys added.