Today more than two dozen sanctions will be imposed by the United States (US) on those involved in Iran’s nuclear, missile, and conventional arms programs, a senior U.S. official said.
This move is an attempt to extend the previous expired United Nations (UN) sanctions on Iran. The US claims that the sanctions have resumed despite the opposition of allies and adversaries, referring to the UN Security Council member countries voting against extending the 2015 UN sanctions on Iran.
These new sanctions come a week after the US-brokered deal for UAE and Bahrain to normalise ties with Israel, also putting European allies, China, and Russia on notice that while their inclination may be to ignore the US drive to maintain the UN sanctions on Iran, companies based in their nations would feel the bite for violating them.
The US administration suspects Iran of seeking nuclear weapons and Monday’s penal steps are the latest in a series seeking to hinder Iran’s atomic program. Iran has denied these assertions.
“Iran could have enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon by the end of the year and that Tehran has resumed long-range missile cooperation with nuclear-armed North Korea,” said an official on condition of anonymity
“Iran is clearly doing everything it can to keep in existence a virtual turnkey capability to get back into the weaponization business at a moment’s notice should it choose to do so,” the US official told Reuters.
For access to the world market, in 2015 Iran had signed a deal that sought to restrain Iran’s atomic program. But in May 2018, Trump abandoned the agreement, restoring US sanctions, thus crippling Iran’s economy.
Iran, according to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has gradually breached the central limits in the deal, stockpiling low-enriched Uranium.
Commenting on these new impending sanctions, spokesman for Iran’s mission to the UN, Alireza Miryousefi, told Reuters in an email, “The U.S.’ ‘maximum pressure’ show, which includes new propaganda measures almost every week, has clearly failed miserably, and announcing new measures will not change this fact.
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“The entire world understands that these are a part of (the) next U.S. election campaign, and they are ignoring the U.S.’ preposterous claims at the U.N. today. It will only make (the) U.S. more isolated in world affairs,” he said.
The White House declined to comment before the Monday announcement.
The United States says that it has triggered a resumption of virtually all UN sanctions on Iran, including the arms embargo, to come into effect at 8 p.m. on Saturday/0000 GMT on Sunday.
Most U.N. Security Council members have said that they do not believe the UnS has the right to reimpose the UN sanctions and the move has no legal effect.
China’s U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun and Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia in letters to the Security Council have termed the US move as “illegitimate”.
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The Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council he cannot act on the US declaration that UN sanctions had been reimposed because it was not clear whether they had snapped back.