UN Security Council Votes to Impose Snapback Sanctions on Iran Over Nuclear Weapons Program
Iran working to review nuclear weapons program, dismantled in the 12-Day War.
The 15-member United Nations Security Council has voted in favor of reimposing snapback sanctions on the Iranian regime over its rogue nuclear weapons program. “The United Nations Security Council did not adopt a draft resolution on Friday to permanently lift sanctions on Iran,” Reuters reported Friday.
Today’s UN resolution gives Iran eight more days to negotiate or face wider sanctions. European countries want Tehran to return to the framework of the 2015 nuclear deal, which includes opening its facilities to international inspectors and stopping uranium enrichment.
The U.S. and other Western allies voted to reimpose sanctions on Iran. China and Russia opposed the measure. “Russia, China, Pakistan and Algeria voted in favor of the draft text on Friday. Nine members voted against it, while two abstained,” the news agency said.
The Trump administration welcomed the reimposition of UN sanctions on Iran. “Their case was clear: Iran has enriched uranium well above [2015 Iran nuclear deal] limits – in a manner for which there is no credible civilian purpose,” the U.S. Mission to the UN said in a statement Friday.
“Absent a deal, it is incumbent on the international community to not accept Iranian half measures or efforts to delay accountability: we must, with one voice, press leadership in Iran to choose the path of peace and by extension, prosperity for the Iranian people,” the statement added.
The case is clear: Iran has enriched uranium well above Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) limits without any credible civilian purpose. Today's Security Council vote means pre-2015 UN sanctions on Iran will be re-imposed on September 27. The return does not preclude… pic.twitter.com/oN55G6jHi9
— U.S. Mission to the UN (@USUN) September 19, 2025
On August 28, Britain, France, and Germany launched a 30-day process in accordance with the Obama-era nuclear deal, accusing the Tehran regime of violating the agreement. Ahead of this 30-day deadline, the resolution to trigger the snapback sanctions was placed before the UN Security Council.
Despite countless diplomatic protestations by the Europeans, the Iranian regime has no intention of giving up its nuclear weapons program. While Israel’s strikes on Tehran’s nuclear sites and its elimination of key nuclear experts have dealt a devastating blow, the regime is working to revive the rogue program.
The Associated Press reported:
A U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at halting the reimposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program failed Friday after weeks of last-ditch diplomatic talks appeared to break down days before the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders.
The resolution put forth by South Korea, the current president of the 15-member council, did not garner the support of the nine countries required to halt the series of sanctions from taking effect at the end of the month, as outlined in Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Only four countries — China, Russia, Pakistan and Algeria — supported the effort, with some using the meeting to blast the European leaders for what they called an unjustified and illegal action against Iran.
“Their only goal now is to use the council as a tool for their bad faith play, as a lever to exert pressure on the state in favor of a state which is trying to defend its sovereign interests,” Vassily Alekseevich Nebenzia, the Russian ambassador to the U.N., said ahead of the vote. The Chinese envoy echoed that sentiment, saying that the council’s action on this issue has managed to bring a “definitive” end to eight years of diplomacy with “one stroke.”
In May 2018, President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal. However, Germany, France, and the UK stuck to the multilateral agreement, unwilling to join Washington’s policy of ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Tehran.
After Israel exposed the extent of Iran’s nuclear weapons program during the 12-Day War (June 13-24, 2025), the European powers appear to have realized their failure to stop Iran from getting nukes through diplomacy. Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz backed Israel’s strike on Iran’s nuclear program, admitting the IDF was doing the “dirty work” for the rest of the civilized world.
In the final stage of the war, President Donald Trump joined the Israeli military operation, ordering airstrikes on three underground Iranian nuclear sites. Following the strikes, he declared that the “nuclear arsenal being ‘created’ by Iran has been totally obliterated.
Israeli intelligence agency Mossad agreed with this assessment. Mossad’s Director, David Barnea, said that the Iranian nuclear threat had been ‘significantly thwarted’ by the strikes. He also thanked the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for “backing the Mossad in key decisions that enabled this mission.
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It takes the US bombing Iran to get the UN to acknowledge their decades of misdeeds with regards to nuclear armament. It wasn’t even well hidden…they were bragging about it!
These UN asshats are inept and corrupt all at the same time.
The UN ambassadors are agents of their countries. It is the countries which are the problem. It be fitting if after enabling Iran, Iran ends up nuking China and Russia deliberately or accidently, who cares.
However you are correct that the UN asshats are inept and corrupt.
yawn
criminals are criminals and the left will act like they are on our side for the briefest time possible
What’s the catch?
UN sanctions? What a joke…
The UN sanctions are no joke, and they’re legally binding on all members. Russia and China won’t care, but the European courts will force their countries to reimpose them.
This is wrong, and is contradicted by the rest of the post.
The whole point of the snapback provision is that no resolution is needed to reimpose the sanctions. Upon any party giving notice, the sanctions automatically snap back 30 days later unless the Security Council passes a resolution to stop them. That was the resolution proposed, which failed 9-4-2.
President Trump could and should have triggered this process on Jan-20-2017. Since no resolution to stop the sanctions could have passed over a US veto, the sanctions would have been back in place automatically on Feb-19-2017. And while China and Russia would have ignored them, the EU countries would have been forced to obey them. Their own courts would have forced them. Instead he withdrew from JCOPA, so when he eventually tried to trigger the snapback he couldn’t, because the USA was no longer a party.