Iran's Parliament vows 'decisive' payback to snapback of sanctions
Iran Press TV
Tuesday, 02 September 2025 11:23 AM
Iran's Parliament has warned of a decisive and reciprocal response to a planned decision by the European troika to unleash the snapback mechanism of sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
The Iranian legislature raised the alarm in a closed session on Tuesday as the lawmakers reviewed for one and a half hours the repercussions of the anti-Tehran move on the country's economy and other fields.
Germany, France and Britain, the three European signatories — the European troika or E3 — to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), announced last week they would invoke the snapback procedure, a clause that reinstates pre-JCPOA era sanctions on Tehran over claims of the Islamic Republic's "significant non-compliance" with the landmark pact.
The snapback mechanism, defined in UN Security Council Resolution 2231, opens 30 days before the restoration of previously terminated UN Security Council sanctions against Iran.
Abbas Goudarzi, the spokesperson of the Iranian Parliament's presiding board, said the legislative body would over the coming days look into all plans and proposals from the parliamentarians with a focus on the Supreme National Security Council regarding the response to snapback.
"Enemies must understand that the [Iranian] Parliament, the government, the Supreme National Security Council, and all pillars and institutions of the Establishment are united, cohesive, and integrated, and the response of the Islamic Republic of Iran to hostile actions will be reciprocal and deterrent," Goudarzi said.
On this matter, all political factions in the Parliament, are "in agreement that Iran's response must be decisive, reciprocal, and regret-inducing, so that the cost of the enemy's actions is imposed upon them," he added. "All these plans and proposals will be reviewed in the foreseen meetings, and ultimately, the necessary decision will be made."
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf also stressed in his address to a plenary session on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic's "unified decision" in response to the illegal action by the E3 will soon be announced.
"It is clear that the three European countries, due to their failure to fulfill their commitments under the JCPOA, did not have the right to activate the mechanism of Paragraph 37 of the JCPOA, and therefore illegally initiated the process of reinstating resolutions," Qalibaf said.
"It is necessary for Iran to take a deterrent action to make this illegal action by the European parties costly to bring a change in the enemy's decision to activate the snapback mechanism," he added. "The unified decision of the Islamic Republic system in this regard will be announced and implemented soon."
In a letter dated August 28, 2025, addressed to the UN Security Council and Secretary General António Guterres, the Iranian Foreign Ministry urged all Security Council members "to reject the unjustified political manipulations and to uphold the integrity of international law and authority of the Council."
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also told his European counterparts in a call that Tehran will respond appropriately to their "illegal and unjustified action."
Russia and China, both permanent members of the UN Security Council and signatories to the JCPOA, have slammed the E3's move to invoke the snapback mechanism of sanctions on Iran, warning against the repercussions of imposing curbs on the Islamic Republic's peaceful nuclear program.
The US ditched the JCPOA in 2018 before returning the illegal sanctions that it had lifted against Iran and launching the so-called maximum pressure campaign.
Following the US withdrawal, the European signatories to the JCPOA failed to uphold their commitments and made no efforts to save the agreement.
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