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France, Germany and UK Ready to Trigger Snapback Sanctions on Iran

The E3 have set an August deadline for Tehran to resume nuclear talks or face automatic UN sanctions reinstatement.

FILE - Ian's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Kazem Gharibabadi, waits for the start of the IAEA board of governors meeting at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)
French President Emmanuel Macron, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at a hotel prior to an E3 meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands. Picture date: Tuesday June 24, 2025.
France's President Emmanuel Macron and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer meet with Germany?s Chancellor Friedrich Merz (not pictured) on the sidelines of the two-day NATO's Heads of State and Government summit, in The Hague, Netherlands June 24, 2025. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Overview

  • Foreign ministers Jean-Noël Barrot, David Lammy and Johann Wadephul formally notified the UN they will invoke the JCPOA snapback mechanism if Iran does not accept a limited extension or return to negotiations by August 31.
  • The letter cites Iran’s suspension of routine IAEA inspections after June airstrikes and its uranium stockpile swelling to over 40 times the 2015 deal limit as grounds for ‘significant non-performance.’
  • Reimposing snapback sanctions would automatically restore UN arms embargoes, restrictions on nuclear-related equipment and financial measures that were set to lapse on Oct. 18 under the JCPOA.
  • Tehran has rejected the Europeans’ legal authority to trigger snapback and warned that reinstated sanctions could prompt withdrawal from the NPT or the nuclear agreement.
  • The looming end-of-August window initiates a 30-day Security Council review ahead of the JCPOA’s mid-October sunset, intensifying the diplomatic countdown.