Iran Defiant on Restored Sanctions
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A hungrier, poorer and more anxious Iran awaits ‘snapback’ of UN sanctions over its nuclear program
People in Iran increasingly find themselves priced out of the food they need to survive and worried about the future ahead of the reimposition of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program.
A Russian- and Chinese-drafted resolution aimed at delaying the reinstatement of UN sanctions on Iran failed to pass at the Security Council
The unsuccessful bid to put off the sanctions for six months over Iran’s nuclear program means they would go into effect early Sunday in Iran.
Iran has not formally acknowledged the test last week, carried out at a circular pad that has hosted other major launches by the country’s civilian space program.
Iran insists diplomacy is the only way to resolve a decades-long nuclear dispute with the West, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told Iranian state TV on Monday, adding it was time for the West to choose "cooperation or confrontation" amid looming sanctions.
Iran’s parliament will on Sunday debate a letter by its members calling for a change in the country’s stated policy of not pursuing nuclear weapons, raising the stakes in the diplomatic showdown over Tehran’s atomic work ahead of a key UN vote.
Satellite imagery indicates Iran is increasing construction at a deeply buried site in Pickaxe Mountain, just south of the Natanz nuclear facility hit by Israeli and U.S. strikes in June.
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Tehran allows limited nuclear access but plans to counter sanctions
Iran has allowed inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) back into the country days before UN "snapback" sanctions go into force, the IAEA told dpa in Vienna on Saturday, but Tehran is preparing countermeasures.