Overview

• The reactivated UN measures restore arms-related restrictions, financial limits and asset freezes tied to earlier Security Council resolutions that all member states are expected to implement.
• President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran will not enter negotiations with Western countries unless sanctions are lifted and signaled plans to support household livelihoods under pressure.
• China and Russia submitted a resolution seeking to delay the snapback and publicly defended Iran, raising doubts about how uniformly the sanctions will be carried out.
• The United States urged immediate compliance and said diplomacy remains an option, though prospects have dimmed after reported Israeli and U.S. strikes in June that disrupted talks.
• Iran is expected to lean on a long‑running resistance economy, with oil exports rebounding to about 1.5 million barrels per day in 2024—roughly 80% to China—and Iranian media reporting a new deal with Russia to build four nuclear reactors.