FM Ashkenazi hails US declaration that UN sanctions on Iran in force

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi hails the US for announcing that UN nuclear sanctions on Iran are back in force.

“I thank the US for its determined policy at the Security Council… to prevent the removal of the arms embargo on Iran,” Ashkenazi says in a Foreign Ministry statement.

Despite the US declaration that “snapback” sanctions were now in effect, other members of the Security Council have dismissed the move.

“I call on all other countries in the world to stand alongside the US to, to refrain from selling weaponry to Iran and to enforce the sanctions in full,” Ashkenazi says.

He also appeals directly to the three European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran — France, Britain and Germany — to drop their opposition to the US move and enact the sanctions on Iran.