Berlin, Paris and London demand rapid steering from Iran

Nuclear dispute with Tehran

Berlin, Paris and London demand rapid steering from Iran

The Foreign Minister of Germany, France and Great Britain speak to their Iranian colleague on the edge of the UN General Assembly in New York. You have an unmistakable message.

Germany, France and Great Britain ultimately call on Iran in the dispute over its nuclear program. Tehran should “take concrete steps in the coming days, if not even hours to clear up the long-term concerns about his nuclear program,” demanded the foreign ministers of the three countries and the EU after a meeting with their Iranian colleague Abbas Araghtschi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on the platform X.

This included the resumption of direct discussions with the USA and the access of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “to all Iranian nuclear objects, as Iran’s obligations,” it said. One is “ready to start the sanction mechanism in an emergency”. However, this will not mean the end of their engagement. “We remain determined to find a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear program,” emphasized Germany, France and Great Britain.

Federal Foreign Minister Johann WadePhul (CDU), his French colleague Jean-Noël Barrot and British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper took part in the meeting.

Before the meeting with Araghtschi, the German Foreign Minister had made it clear that he hardly expects that a reinstatement of UN sanctions can be averted against Tehran. It must be “clear to everyone that after all the tactics of Iran, the opportunities and the chances of getting a diplomatic solution before triggering the sanctions are extraordinarily low,” he said on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

Iran must “understand that we expect concrete, comprehensible and credible measures from him that show that he permanently waives the possession of a nuclear weapon,” said Wadephul. The country has been disregarding its obligations from the Vienna Nuclear agreement for years. “We have drawn the necessary consequences and triggered the so-called Snapback mechanism, with which the international sanctions against Iran are used again at the end of this week.”

The UN Security Council voted against a resolution on Friday that aimed to continue to be spared Iran. As planned, the punitive measures from 2006 to 2010 against Tehran should apply again as planned from September 28th of September 27th (September 27th midnight).

Germany, France and Great Britain are among the contracting states of the nuclear agreement with Iran from 2015. The three countries had started the so-called snapback mechanism to reintroduce the sanctions at the end of August because, in their view, Iran, in their view, violates the agreements of the nuclear deal of 2015. An example is the enrichment of uranium, which goes far beyond the values ​​that are necessary for civil purposes.