{"id":7993,"date":"2025-09-19T21:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7993"},"modified":"2025-09-25T21:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:33:20","slug":"7993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/09\/19\/7993\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Big news.\u00a0 See \u201cUN Security Council votes against lifting Iran \u2018snapback\u2019 sanctions,\u201d<\/a> PBS, 9-20-25.\u00a0 See also\u00a0\u201cIran Loses \u2018Snap-Back\u2019 Vote in a Landslide,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 9-19-25.\u00a0\u00a0The full editorial.\u00a0 \u201cIran still isn\u2019t serious about giving up the remains of its nuclear-weapons program. The consequence on Friday was the clinching of \u201csnap-back\u201d United Nations sanctions, set to take effect on Sept. 28. The Iranian regime has only itself to blame. The foreign ministers of the U.K., France and Germany offered in late July to extend the sanctions deadline in exchange for common-sense steps: Resume U.N. nuclear inspections and U.S. nuclear talks. Iran didn\u2019t respond for a month, snubbed U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, and threatened the U.N.\u2019s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief. On Aug. 28 the European powers triggered what\u2019s known as the snap-back mechanism. This started a 30-day countdown to the reimposition of sanctions lifted by Barack Obama\u2019s 2015 nuclear deal. These include an arms embargo, a ban on nuclear enrichment, and a ban on tests and transfers of ballistic missiles. As part of the countdown, a U.N. Security Council resolution had to be introduced proposing to save the sanctions relief. This way Iran would have one last chance to comply and get the sanctions called off, but the resolution could be vetoed if it didn\u2019t. In the end, a veto wasn\u2019t necessary. The resolution failed 9\u20134 on Friday, with two abstentions. Only Algeria, China, Pakistan and Russia voted to shield Iran from the sanctions. Iranian intransigence had antagonized the rest. Tehran now has only a week left to make real concessions before Sept. 28 arrives. So far it doesn\u2019t seem interested. This week Iran\u2019s regime asked the Europeans to cancel the snap-back and give up their leverage in exchange for mere promises ahead of negotiations. With IAEA inspectors sidelined, Iran also sought a U.S. guarantee that it would be allowed to extract its remaining stockpile of highly enriched uranium from under the rubble of its nuclear facilities. Nice try. Once in possession of that nuclear material, what if the Iranian regime decided not to dilute it as promised or squirreled some away? Tehran would be well on its way to nuclear weapons again. At present Iran can\u2019t easily extract the highly enriched uranium without risking another U.S. or Israeli strike. The European powers have done well to see through Iran\u2019s games. As IAEA reports from before the war in June laid bare, the regime has cheated for years on its Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty commitments and then lied, stonewalled and covered up evidence. Iran had time to negotiate and blew it off. Now, if it wants a sanctions reprieve, let it return to compliance with its nuclear obligations. The only reason not to do so is to preserve the regime\u2019s path to a nuclear weapon. After Israel exposed Iran\u2019s vulnerability in June\u2019s 12-day war, and President Trump sent the Air Force to remove all doubt, there\u2019s less reason than ever to defer to Tehran. Now even the U.N. Security Council has rallied to the U.S. position: Zero Iranian enrichment, zero nuclear-capable missiles, full dismantlement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPreparing for the End of the Islamic Republic of Iran,\u201d<\/a> National Interest, 9-19-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big news.\u00a0 See \u201cUN Security Council votes against lifting Iran \u2018snapback\u2019 sanctions,\u201d PBS, 9-20-25.\u00a0 See also\u00a0\u201cIran Loses \u2018Snap-Back\u2019 Vote in a Landslide,\u201d WSJ, 9-19-25.\u00a0\u00a0The full editorial.\u00a0 \u201cIran still isn\u2019t serious about giving up the remains of its nuclear-weapons program. The consequence on Friday was the clinching of \u201csnap-back\u201d United Nations sanctions, set to take effect … <\/p>\n

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