UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The Biden government on Thursday recalled the recovery of former President Donald Trump’s recovery from UN sanctions against Iran, an announcement that could help Washington rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal that followed. aimed at re-entering the core program of the Islamic Republic.
Acting US Ambassador Richard Mills, on behalf of President Joe Biden, sent a letter to the UN Security Council saying that the United States was withdrawing three letters from the Trump administration following its September 19 announcement that the United States was imposing UN sanctions. reset. in Tehran.
Mills said in a letter to The Associated Press that sanctions that ended in the 2015 council decision that endorsed the six major powers’ nuclear deal but were restored by Trump in September are “still being terminated.”
Trump withdrew the United States in 2018 from the agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, and accused Iran of serious violations.
Biden said the United States wanted to rejoin the treaty, and the State Department said on Thursday that the United States would accept an invitation from the European Union to attend a meeting of the participants in the original agreement – Britain , France, Germany, Russia, China and Iran.
The rest of the Security Council and the world have welcomed the Trump administration’s decision to call for a provision in the 2015 Council resolution calling for a “snapback” of sanctions, as Iran has “substantially failed” in its commitments. under the agreement.
The overwhelming majority of members in the 15-nation council called Trump’s actions illegal because the US was no longer a member of the JCPOA.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the United Nations will not support the imposition of sanctions on Iran as the United States has demanded before receiving a green light from the Security Council. He said there was “uncertainty” as to whether Mike Pompeo, the former foreign secretary, caused the “snapback” mechanism.