Rubio welcomes E3 decision to initiate snapback sanctions on Iran

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio welcomes the decision by the E3 countries to initiate snapback sanctions against Iran.

“These European allies have laid out a clear case of Iran’s continuing ‘significant non-performance’ of its nuclear commitments, establishing a strong basis for initiating snapback,” Rubio says in a statement.

“Moreover, the E3 could have initiated snapback at any point since 2019 but chose instead to first pursue intensive outreach and engagement — to provide Iran with a diplomatic offramp from its strategy of nuclear escalation.”

Rubio says the US will work with the E3 countries — France, Germany and the UK — and other UN Security Council members to successfully implement the sanctions, while remaining open to direct engagement with Tehran to secure “a peaceful, enduring resolution to the Iran nuclear issue.”

“Snapback does not contradict our earnest readiness for diplomacy; it only enhances it. I urge Iranian leaders to take the immediate steps necessary to ensure that their nation will never obtain a nuclear weapon; to walk the path of peace; and to, by extension, advance prosperity for the Iranian people,” he adds.