MOSCOW, September 28. /TASS/. An attempt of the United Kingdom, France and Germany to return old sanctions of the UN Security Council against Iran appears like double-dealing and all their legal sanctions do not hold water, Official Spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said.
She reminded that this refers to the snapback mechanism, meaning the procedure enabling to quickly return old sanctions of the UN Security Council against Iran. The Europeans "made a crafty piece of trickery" in circumvention of the procedure for the resolution of disputed situations set out in Resolution 2231.
"The parties should initially consider claims in the dispute resolution mechanism. And only if everything is in the deadlock - to put forward the issue to the UN Security Council. Contrary to assertions of the Euro Three, this mechanism was not used. London, Paris and Berlin omitted these stages and submitted a paper to the UN Security Council immediately. It appears like double-dealing from the standpoint of the international law: if you violate the rules yourself, then you lose the right to use mechanisms set out in them. And they are "series" violators of Resolution 2231. When certain restrictions imposed on Iran expired on October 18. 2023, they introduced similar country sanctions," Zakharova noted on her Telegram channel.
