Iranian FM slams European troika’s illegal move to reinstate terminated UNSC resolutions against Iran

In an official letter to EU Foreign Policy Chief and Coordinator of the JCPOA Joint Commission Kaya Kallas Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi outlined Iran’s position regarding the dispute settlement mechanism laid out in the JCPOA.

In an official letter to EU Foreign Policy Chief
and Coordinator of the JCPOA Joint Commission
Kaya Kallas, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi outlined Iran’s position regarding the dispute settlement mechanism laid out in the JCPOA.

Araghchi voiced regret over the selective and incomplete narrative presented by the EU and the three European countries in their letter dated August 8, 2025. The foreign minister said the European sides ignored essential facts and procedural precedents related to the JCPOA and UN Security Council Resolution 2231 and overlooked their long-standing non-compliance with their obligations under the JCPOA.

Araghchi reaffirmed Iran’s previous positions, extensively detailed in correspondence dated July 22, saying the three European countries have no legal authority to resort to the dispute resolution mechanism or to trigger the automatic re-imposition of sanctions. He also noted that this stance has been supported by the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China, citing their official explanatory notes submitted to the Security Council.

Araqchi referred to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s long-standing use of the dispute resolution mechanism and said Tehran was the first JCPOA signatory to invoke it in response to the US withdrawal from the agreement and the EU and three European countries’ failure to fulfill their obligations.

While rejecting the claim that the mechanism was only activated in two formal cases in 2020, he cited Iran’s use of the mechanism in the May 10, 2018 letter and multiple Joint Commission meetings on May 25 and July 6, 2018, which took place before Iran’s reciprocal actions. Araghchi underscored that ignoring these precedents discredits the EU’s arguments.

The top Iranian diplomat noted that the claim of the three European countries activating the dispute resolution mechanism in 2020 was explicitly rejected by Iran, Russia, and China and constituted an unjustified and unacceptable “reciprocal action against a reciprocal action” in response to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s legitimate corrective measures.