Iran seeks Russia, China helps to avoid UN sanctions before the deadline

Iran said he would have discussions with Russia and China on Tuesday in order to bypass the Snapback UN sanctions while the deadline for a nuclear agreement is looming.

“We are constant in consultation with these two countries to prevent the activation of the snapback or to alleviate its consequences,” said the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmail Baghaei, at a press briefing on Monday, Iran International reported. “We have aligned positions and good relationships.”

China and Russia are signatories of the 2015 Complete Complete Action Plan (JCPOA), an agreement that has apparently not ended Iran’s nuclear ambitions after the American withdrawal of the Agreement under Trump’s first presidency in 2018 and the subsequent nuclear progress of Tehran.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is held with Russian Foreign Deputy Minister Sergey Ryabkov, and Iranian Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibada, before a meeting concerning the Iranian nuclear issue on March 14, 2025 in Beijing. (Pool via Reuters)

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The news of the imminent meeting occurs a week after France, Germany and the United Kingdom have announced that they would apply the Snapback sanctions on Tehran if it would not be able to conclude a new nuclear agreement by the end of August.

What should be included in a new nuclear agreement remains uncertain and Iran has not yet renewed nuclear negotiations with the United States after Washington made significant strikes against its main atomic facilities last month in coordination with Israel.

The Snapback mechanism has been reserved under the JCPOA and allows any signatory to recall that the rigorous international sanctions against Iran are applied by the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council – including Russia and China – if Tehran is determined to violate the terms of the 2015 agreement.

Since Trump’s first presidency, the United States has threatened the use of Snapback sanctions, although Washington can no longer call for the reimpertation of the economic tool when leaving the agreement – a decision determined by the UN and the other JCPOA signatories.

The Security Council met at the United Nations headquarters on June 13, 2025 in New York. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

Iran faces the deadline for August to accept the complete nuclear agreement or face renewed United Nations sanctions

But senior DC officials, such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, continued to encourage European allies to use this tool to push Iran to stop nuclear development.

Iran should also speak with France, Germany and the United Kingdom – an alliance also known as E3 – this Friday, although the window to conclude a new nuclear agreement ends despite years of repeated attempts.

“Snapback at the CSNU remains, not only that of the Trump administration, but the most powerful political and diplomatic tool in the international community against the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Iranian expert Iranian expert and principal director of the for Defense of Democracies Foundation told Fox News.

“Snapback and a restoration of older and more strict UNSC resolutions which contain prohibitions for exporting weapons, prohibitions of missile tests, as well as a panel of experts to monitor the compliance of sanctions, will actually worsen the political and military dividends that the United States and the Israeli strikes have given,” he added.

A banner representing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is placed next to a ballistic missile on Place Baharestan in Tehran, Iran, September 26, 2024. (Hossein Beris / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

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Safety experts have been ringing the alarm for months that it will take approximately six weeks for the UN sanctions to be applied, largely for procedural reasons, and the possibility of applying Snapback sanctions as part of the JCPOA terms will expire on October 18.

Ben Taleblu has also warned that these intense sanctions against Iran could cause new security threats to the West with regard to the Tehran nuclear program, as it could encourage Iran to leave other international nuclear agreements such as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (TNP).