Iran-UN Relations

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson has slammed a report by a UN Human Rights Council panel for ignoring the Islamic Republic’s contributory role in the political settlement of crisis in Yemen and accusing Iran of arming the parties to the conflict.

A senior Iranian official says measures adopted by the US against Iran have no legal foundation and is doomed to failure.

The Iranian president has dismissed as childish, ridiculous and baseless the US push to use the so-called snapback mechanism in the Iran nuclear deal to bring back international sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi says the legal arguments by the majority of UN Security Council member states and its president clearly indicate that the US is not authorized to use snapback mechanism against Iran.

An Iranian official says the United States’ desperate attempt at the United Nations to bring back a UN arms embargo as well as sanctions on Iran is doomed to fail.

Iran's president has hailed Niger for its refusal to support a US-initiated resolution on the extension of the UN arms embargo on Tehran, urging the African country to act independently during its presidency of the UN Security Council and stand against the US government’s unilateralism.

A senior Iranian official says the United States has little chance of convincing the UN to agree to its demand that international sanctions on Iran be reinstated.

Representatives from the three guarantor states of the Astana Peace Process –Iran, Russia and Turkey- and the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria held a meeting in Switzerland to discuss the situation in Syria.

Ali-Asghar Khaji, a senior assistant to the Iranian foreign minister, and the UN's Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ramesh Rajasingham have sat for talks on a range of issues.

A senior Iranian official has discussed Yemen developments with the UN representative for the Arab country.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson says the UN Security Council president’s assertion that the US’ push to restore the UN sanctions on Iran is null and void indicates that the American attempt would have dire legal consequences.

A senior Iranian diplomat and the UN’s point man on Syria have exchanged views on the latest developments in the Arab country.

The Iranian president says the United States' back-to-back defeats at the UN Security Council are a result of the Iranian nation's resistance.

Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Saeed Khatibzadeh has dismissed the notion raised by some foreign media that a request from Washington has reinstated the UN sanctions against Tehran, saying the US will never achieve its illegitimate objective.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has, in a letter to the chairman of the UN Security Council, blasted the US' attempt to return the UNSC sanctions on Iran, reiterating that the US has no right to reapply provisions of a deal it has already left.

The US’ threat to activate a return of the UN sanctions against Tehran by triggering a mechanism in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal has no legal basis as Washington has already pulled out of the JCPOA, the Iranian president’s chief of staff has underlined.

The Iranian president says the United States is not legally authorized to trigger the so-called “snapback” mechanism to reinstate UN sanctions against Iran.

The spokesperson for the Iranian government says a seven-way online summit of the UN Security Council permanent members, Germany and Iran, proposed by the president of Russia, is unlikely to produce results as the US government lacks any sincere intention.

A senior Iranian official says the UN Security Council’s refusal to adopt a US-drafted proposal to extend a UN arms embargo on Iran was another sign of international opposition to Washington’s unilateralism.

The Iranian president says the UN Security Council’s refusal to approve a US-drafted anti-Iran resolution was a “humiliating defeat” for Washington.

Iran has hailed the UN Security Council's rejection of unilateralism following the US failure to get the world body to extend a UN arms embargo on Iran.

The Iranian president says the United States will fail in its efforts to extend a UN arms embargo on Iran.

The Iranian Ministry of Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Handicrafts will continue its cooperation with world bodies to draw up a national Iranian tourism promotion program with EU funding.

Iran’s government spokesman says the country will react to any US attempt to extend an arms embargo on the Islamic Republic that expires on October 18, 2020.

A senior Iranian official has called on members of the UN Security Council to show their independence by voting against a US-drafted resolution on the extension of a UN arms embargo against Iran, which is to expire in October.