Standing at the site of an Iranian missile strike in Bat Yam alongside Germany’s Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar calls for European powers to initiate “snapback” sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
“Now the international system has a duty to take concrete steps against the Iranian nuclear program, in light of the Iranian regime’s attacks on the IAEA and its announcement that it will stop cooperating with it,” says Sa’ar. “It’s time for the E3 countries – the UK, Germany and France – to activate the snapback, a concrete step that is to their disposal.”
Under the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal, signatories can trigger a mechanism to automatically reinstate UN sanctions on Iran over its noncompliance, an option that expires in October.
Dobrindt, making the first visit by a senior foreign official since the war between Iran and Israel ended last week, calls for increased backing for Israel.
“We must deepen our support for Israel,” Dobrindt says amid the rubble of a June 15 Iranian strike that killed nine people, including three children.
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