France hints UN could sanction Iran
THIS COMES AFTER TEHRAN SCALED BACK ON NUCLEAR COMMITMENTS
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Wednesday raised the possibility of triggering a mechanism in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that could lead to the reimposition of United Nations sanctions.
Le Drian’s comments, to the National Assembly’s foreign affairs committee, came against a background of Iranian moves to disregard elements of the deal and escalating tension in the Gulf region.
“Every two months there is another notch (from Iran) to the extent that we are wondering today, and I say very clearly, about the implementation of the dispute resolution mechanism in the treaty,” he told the lawmakers.
“Given the succession of actions taken by the Iranian authorities, who are progressively at odds with the the contents of the JCPOA (the nuclear deal), the question comes up,” he added.
Meanwhile, Iran rejected France’s comments as “irresponsible”.
“Iran’s scaling back of its nuclear commitments was implementation of its legal rights to react to America’s illegal and unilateral exit of the deal and the European parties’ failure to fulfil their
Every two months there is another notch (from Iran) to the extent that we are wondering today, and I say very clearly, about the implementation of the dispute resolution mechanism in the treaty.” Jean-Yves Le Drian (above)
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obligations,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Thursday. said in remarks quoted by state television.