UN Security Council rejects Russia and China’s last-ditch effort to delay sanctions on Iran
September 26, 2025
Iran’s president is calling the expected reimposition of sanctions over its nuclear program “unfair, unjust and illegal” as the U.N. Security Council rejected a last-ditch effort to delay them. President Masoud Pezeshkian spoke at a meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, a day before the deadline for the so-called “snapback” of sanctions to kick in. But the president says that despite previous threats, Iran will not respond by withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, potentially following North Korea, which abandoned the treaty in 2003 and then built atomic weapons.