A leaked letter to the UN Security Council shows that the British government has rejected the US position on Iran’s nuclear and conventional weapons programs, is siding with France and Germany at the UN, and is risking a diplomatic confrontation with its closest ally.
The letter, dated August 20, notifies the head of the UN Security Council that the ‘E3’ (Britain, France, Germany) remain ‘committed to fully implementing UNSCR 2231 (2015), by which the JCPOA [the ‘Iran deal’] was endorsed in 2015’, and that the United States request for ‘snapback’ on sanctions on Iran has no legal validity: ‘Germany, France and the United Kingdom (‘the E3’) do not consider that the United States is a JCPOA participant State under UNSCR 2231 (2015) anymore and therefore do not consider that the United States’ notification is effective.’
Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the JCPOA in May 2018, calling the ‘Iran deal’ flawed and the Iranian regime duplicitous.
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