Now, with the risks to international peace and security from Iran\u2019s nuclear program greater than ever, we were left with no choice but to initiate the snapback process.<\/p>\n
Over the last decade we have made every effort to resolve the issue diplomatically, including many months of negotiations in 2021-2022 \u2013 twice offering Iran a generous deal, which they refused.<\/p>\n
And for many years now, we have made it clear to Iran that we cannot allow Security Council Resolution 2231 to expire without a comprehensive deal in place \u2013 with E3 Officials meeting Iranian Deputy Foreign Ministers 5 times this year alone.<\/p>\n
We have spoken to Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Araghchi regularly, including in Geneva this June, during the 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran. In July, we spoke to Minister Araghchi offering Iran a snapback extension.<\/p>\n
The extension conditions we made were fair and realistic: resume negotiations on a comprehensive deal; comply with the IAEA, including inspections of all nuclear facilities and material, as required by Iran\u2019s legal obligations; take steps to address the high enriched uranium stockpile.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Iran has not met these conditions, and the minimal steps it took fell well short of our requirements. This brings us to the action we have taken this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, with the risks to international peace and security from Iran\u2019s nuclear program greater than ever, we were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5704,627,8063,230,819,59,145,57,58,585,9084,48790,2363,50,9292,155,1351,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-99837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-david-lammy","10":"tag-development","11":"tag-diplomacy","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-gb","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-greatbritain","17":"tag-iran","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-jean-noel-barrot","20":"tag-negotiations","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-nuclear-weapons","23":"tag-sanctions","24":"tag-security","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}