The president of Iran claims the country can withstand any retaliation for sanctions
President Masoud Pezeshkian opened a new tab on Tehran on Saturday, saying that Iran would use a “snapback” method to defeat any sanctions that were reinstated following the U.N. Security Council’s vote against permanently lifting them.
“They block the road through the’snapback,’ but it is the brains and the thoughts that open or build the road,” Pezeshkian stated in comments that were broadcast on state television.
They are unable to stop us. They can hit our Natanz or Fordow (the nuclear facility that the United States and Israel bombed in June), but they don’t know that mankind constructed and will rebuild Natanz,” Pezeshkian stated.
Following a 30-day process last month to reimpose sanctions, the Security Council took action on Friday. Britain, France, and Germany accused Tehran of violating a 2015 agreement with international powers to stop it from developing a nuclear bomb.
Iran disputes that it has any such plans.
According to official media, Pezeshkian stated, “We have the ability to alter the situation, so we will never give in to unreasonable demands.”
If a delay deal is not struck between Tehran and major European powers within a week, the “snapback” mechanism would reimpose U.N. sanctions on Iran.
Separately, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council issued a warning on Saturday that its collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency would “effectively be suspended” in the event that the U.N. sanctions were lifted.
Although they did not provide specifics, Iran and the U.N. nuclear inspectors announced earlier this month that they had reached an agreement to resume inspections at locations, including those bombed by the United States and Israel.
An arms embargo, prohibitions on uranium enrichment and reprocessing, a worldwide asset freeze, travel restrictions on Iranian people and organizations, and a ban on activities involving ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear weapons would all be reinstated as part of the snapback.
