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Iran recalls ambassadors from UK, France, and Germany after E3 trigger ‘snapback’ of sanctions

Saturday, 27 September 2025 9:47 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 27 September 2025 9:47 AM ]

The photo shows a view of Iran’s Foreign Ministry building in the capital, Tehran.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the country’s ambassador to three European countries for consultations, after the E3 triggered the so-called snapback mechanism against the Islamic Republic.

“Following the irresponsible action of three European countries in abusing the JCPOA dispute resolution mechanism to reinstate repealed UN Security Council resolutions, the ambassadors of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Germany, France, and the United Kingdom have been summoned to Tehran,” the ministry wrote in a statement on Saturday.

On Friday, the US, the UK, France, Denmark, Greece, Panama, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Somalia vetoed the draft measure from Russia and China that sought to delay the imposition of the coercive economic measures against Tehran for six months.

According to the UN, “The so-called ‘snapback’ mechanism [now] remains in force, which will see sanctions re-imposed on Tehran this weekend, following the termination of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).”

The JCPOA lifted the sanctions, which had been imposed on Iran by the Security Council and the US, the UK, France, and Germany over unfounded allegations concerning Tehran’s peaceful nuclear energy program.

US, allies veto draft resolution on delaying ‘snapback’ of Iran sanctions

The United States and its allies veto a draft resolution aimed at delaying “snapback” of the UN Security Council’s sanctions against Iran.

The US left the JCPOA in an illegal and unilateral move in 2018 and then re-imposed its sanctions that the deal had removed.

After the American withdrawal, the UK, France, and Germany also resorted to non-commitment vis-à-vis the Islamic Republic by stopping their trade with Tehran.

The Friday vote came after the trio launched their own bid to activate the “snapback” on August 28.

Tehran refused to categorically rule out talks with the European troika even after illegal and unprovoked attacks by the Israeli regime and the United States against key Iranian nuclear facilities in June, which made it impossible for the IAEA to continue its inspections as before.

Iran’s latest goodwill gesture came on September 9, when it signed a framework agreement with the IAEA aimed at resuming cooperation with the agency, which had been suspended following the aggression.

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