بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Mr. President It is a source of deep concern that Austria, as a newly elected member of the UN Security Council, has advanced a totally distorted narrative to justify its violation of obligations as the host country. It is absolutely astonishing, and indeed ironic, that Austria, in order to justify its wrongful act, invokes resolutions that have been duly and legally terminated, or a non-existent committee of the UN Security Council. Resolution 2231 expired on 18 October 2025, and accordingly, all UN restrictions against the Islamic Republic of Iran were permanently terminated. This is not merely an Iranian position. It is also the firm legal position of two permanent members of the Security Council, as well as of the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement. Occasional moves in New York in the name of a so-called committee are ultra vires and constitute a blatant abuse of the Security Council’s procedures and authority by certain of its Western members. Such a committee has not been officially established, nor has a single meeting of it been held since 2015. These pseudo-legal arguments constitute a gross, and indeed deliberate, distortion of the letter and spirit of the headquarters agreement. Worse still, they distort the UN Charter and the most sensitive part of the Security Council’s decision-making process, which the Charter sets out in the plainest possible language. Denying access to the head of a delegation by resorting to an absurd narrative promoted by certain Western countries on snapback is nothing but overt political conduct. We fully understand the extreme pressure that the Austrian Government faces. But this in no way justifies violation of its obligations by resorting to such unfounded narratives of certain Western States. Their position on snapback defies the UN Charter, undermines the integrity of Security Council decision-making, and disregards even the Council’s own rules of procedure. Claims that snapback operates automatically, despite significant non-performance of commitments by the E3 and the US, the illegal invocation of the Joint Commission’s procedures, and the violation of the underlying requirements of the JCPOA, as well as opposition by two permanent members of the Security Council, contradict the text, context, and object and purpose of the Charter and seriously violate its Article 27. Operative paragraph 11 of Resolution 2231 does not displace Article 27 of the Charter. It presupposes it. It operates within it. It cannot override it. To claim otherwise is legal error and institutional breach. The rule of law must prevail. The Charter must be respected. Mr. President, Allow me, in conclusion, to state one fact explicitly: the visa for the head of our delegation was issued by Austria and access was subsequently denied on the pretext of so-called sanctions. What does this mean? It means that Austria, as the host Government, and all Schengen States that agreed to issue that visa, did not, as a matter of law, consider snapback to have been applied or sanctions to have been revived. This is absolutely clear. It is evident that the cancellation occurred under pressure from a particular country, with a purportedly legal justification subsequently constructed for it. Such pressure is being exerted by the very same country that, only days ago, served as the main sponsor of a politically motivated resolution against Iran at the Board of Governors; the same country that, over the past year, through acts of aggression against Iran’s nuclear facilities, has itself flagrantly violated peremptory norms of international law, the UN Charter, relevant Security Council resolutions, and numerous resolutions of this Conference. The cancellation and the so-called legal justifications advanced for it, are a stark indication of a political act: an advanced form of politicization of this Organization, advancing the national interests of one country at the expense of discrediting an international organization and its host State. This trajectory constitutes an alarming and deeply dangerous trend that must be brought to an end. The unacceptable record of policies and practices of the Austrian Government in discharging its obligations as the host country of international organizations located in Vienna leaves no doubt that it is unfit for such a position. I thank you, Mr. President