UN Security Council rejects Russia and China’s last-ditch effort to delay sanctions on Iran

By AP 26 September 2025, 10:42 pm

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FILE: Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

The UN Security Council rejects another last-ditch effort to delay the reimposition of sanctions on Iran, a day before the deadline, after Western countries claimed that weeks of meetings with officials failed to result in a “concrete” agreement.

It comes a day before a series of UN “snapback” sanctions are set to take effect as outlined in Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

That would again freeze Iranian assets abroad, halt arms deals with Tehran and penalize any development of Iran’s ballistic missile program, among other measures, further squeezing the country’s reeling economy.