Iran warns reprisals if the UN imposes snapback nuclear sanctions

Iran warned on Monday that it would retaliate whether the United Nations Security Council (USC) took measures to impose “snapback” sanctions while nations reflect on the continuation of action to stop the nuclear development of Tehran.

“The threat of using the Snapback mechanism lacks a legal and political basis and will be greeted by an appropriate and proportionate response from the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaeil Baghaei, at a press conference, according to a Reuters report.

Baghaei did not develop how Iran retaliated, but its threats come in the midst of the repeated warnings of security experts that time is exhausted to enforce the sanction mechanism by October 18 in terms of terms dictated by the nuclear agreement of 2015.

Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesperson for Iran, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is expressed at a press conference in Tehran and warns reprisals if the UN issues Snapback sanctions on July 14, 2025. (Atta Kenare / AFP via Getty Images)

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The comments coincided with the 10th anniversary of the Complete Complete Action Plan (JCPOA), which was initially intended to stop the nuclear ambitions of Iran, but which some supported were insufficient to dissuade Tehran adequately.

Under the terms of the JCPOA, any signatory can unilaterally call the Snapback sanctions if Iran has violated the terms of the agreement.

Although the United States, which, alongside the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and Russia, signed the 2015 agreement, was considered by the UN and other JCPOA members unable to use the mechanism after Washington withdrew from the 2018 agreement in the first mandate of President Donald Trump.

Despite repeated calls from the United States to apply Snapback – which would legally apply the 15 members of the Council’s UN, including Russia, to reimpose sanctions to Iran – person on the CSNU or JCPOA has not yet taken measures to apply the sanctions.

“I would say that one of the rare good things about the JCPOA is that it reverses the engineers the veto in the sense that you really need one of the permanent members to be able to do so,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, principal director of the Foundation for the Defense of Iran Orogram of democracies at Fox News Digital. “But why does no one do it? It is because it is a risky decision.

“I think it’s an interesting decision, but we have to be honest-it’s a risky decision,” he added.

Ben Taleblu explained that Iran’s most likely response to the SNAPBACK mechanism of the SNAPBACK mechanism would be his abandonment of the Treaty on the Non -Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (TNP) – an international agreement that more than 190 countries have signed, occurring either not to transfer weapons to another beneficiary by nuclear countries, or not to develop atomic weapons by non -nuclear nations.

The members of the Security Council attend a meeting on threats against international peace and security in the United Nations on June 13, 2025, in New York. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

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The terms of the agreement are monitored by the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency – that Iran has already suspended cooperation with strikes in the United States and Israeli against its nuclear program last month.

“In a world in which Iran’s most likely response is to leave the TNP, you have to trust at least the ability of military threats to dissuade Iran more, or at least the credibility of America and the Israel or the international community, the military options against Iran to move forward,” said Ben Taleblu.

“The problem is the lack of a match plan. Did America provide Europe a match plan, a roadmap for the post-SNAPBack?” He added, noting that there must be a much more important strategy for the next steps if the sanctions should be strengthened.

Although the United States estimates that the Iranian nuclear program has been slowed by two years, experts remain convinced that Tehran’s atomic ambitions have not been dissuaded and that its links with terrorist networks and opponent nations mean that it remains a main security concern.

Trump said that he was still determined to negotiate with Iran on his nuclear program, although questions remain over the duration of the trail negotiations before a European nation such as the United Kingdom, France or Germany must intervene to promulgate Snapback sanctions not only before the deadline of October, but before Russia took control of the CNSC presidency this month.

Pushing the Snapback mechanism should be a process of about six weeks.

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

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On Sunday, reports suggested that the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz could call the Snapback measures on Tuesday, and the American ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee defended the move In a post on X.

But Fox News Digital could not independently verify these claims and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Complaints were incorrect.

The Chancellor’s office did not immediately answer questions from Fox News Digital.