Overview

• A Russia–China draft to postpone snapback by six months failed 4–9 with two abstentions, setting sanctions to take effect at 8 p.m. EDT Saturday (0000 GMT Sunday).
• The restored measures include an arms embargo, bans on enrichment and reprocessing, limits on ballistic missile activity, and global asset freezes and travel bans, with the EU set to reapply its sanctions next week.
• Britain, France and Germany say sanctions could be paused if Tehran restores full IAEA access, engages in serious talks including with the United States, and accounts for more than 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium.
• Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi warned that Tehran will consider its recent IAEA inspection deal terminated if UN resolutions are reinstated, while calling the snapback legally void; President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran will not leave the NPT.
• A diplomat close to the IAEA said inspectors are currently in Iran examining a second undamaged site and will remain through the weekend, even as the verification framework is described as fragile.