Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 2 nd. Under the forced impetus of Britain, France and Germany, the United Nations completed the Iranian nuclear deal's "quick restoration of sanctions" mechanism at the end of last month, and re-imposed the arms embargo and other related sanctions on Iran. In this regard, the Russian side, which has just assumed the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council, said on the 1st that Russia does not recognize the resumption of UN sanctions against Iran, nor will it implement relevant regulations.

LavrovSend a letterby Guterres

Russia began to hold the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council on October 1st. Russia¡¯s permanent representative to the United Nations, Nebenzia, was asked at a press conference on the same day whether Russia would implement the sanctions imposed by the United Nations on Iran. He replied: ¡°We do not recognize the ¡®rapid recovery mechanism¡¯ in effect. We live in two parallel worlds, with ¡®rapid recovery mechanisms¡¯ happening to some people and not to us. This raises a question, and how we get out of this situation ¨C let¡¯s go and see.¡±

This is taken by Nibianjia, Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, photographed at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on February 28, 2022. Photo by Wang Jiangang, a reporter from Xinhua Agency

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has written to UN Secretary-General Guterres to urge the UN not to rush the implementation of sanctions against Iraq and not to re-establish the sanctions committee.

The United Nations has not yet responded.

Iranian Foreign Minister Al-Araqi earlier wrote to Guterres, saying the launch of the "rapid reinstatement of sanctions" mechanism by the three European countries "is legal and procedural and ineffective". he stressed that Iran has always been willing to reach a fair, balanced and sustainable solution through diplomatic means, but the three European countries and the United States have chosen the "confrontation path".

Iranian President: ¡°The sky does not fall¡±

Iranian President Pezehizyan said during his attendance at the United Nations General Assembly in New York at the end of September that Iran has made necessary arrangements to resume sanctions and will overcome all difficulties. "The sky cannot fall."

Before returning to Iran from the United States, Pezzhiyan told the media that Iran had consulted with several European countries during the UN General Assembly and achieved some results, but that the U.S. demanded that Iran hand over all of its enriched uranium in exchange for a three-month ¡°sanctions suspension,¡± which was ¡°absolutely unacceptable.¡±

He reiterated that Iran does not seek to develop nuclear weapons and is willing to resolve differences on the Iranian nuclear issue through diplomatic dialogue.

On September 24, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Iranian President Pencezzian spoke at the general debate of the 80th General Assembly of the United Nations.

In 2015, Iran reached the Iranian nuclear deal with the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany. According to the agreement, Iran restricts its nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of sanctions against Iran by the United Nations, the United States and the European Union. In 2018, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the Iranian nuclear deal and resumed and continuously escalated unilateral sanctions against Iran. Since May 2019, Iran has gradually suspended the implementation of some provisions of the Iranian nuclear deal, but promised that the relevant measures were "reversible".

Since April this year, the United States and Iran have held five rounds of indirect negotiations on Iran's nuclear issue and the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Iran. The United States has asked Iran to completely abandon uranium enrichment activities and Iran has refused. On June 13, Israel attacked Iran, triggering airstrikes for 12 days between the two sides, during which the United States bombed Iran's nuclear facilities. Since then, the United States has not resumed negotiations. To pressure Iran and the United States to resume negotiations, the European Security Council has launched a "rapid resumption mechanism" (journalists: Wang Hongbin, Wu Bao, Chen Qing, Saddati).