Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said the G7’s welcoming of the illegal and unjustified move by the United States and three European countries to reinstate UN Security Council resolutions against Iran amounts to supporting a flagrant violation of international law.
He stressed that the position taken by the G7 cannot change the fundamentally illegal and baseless nature of the move, which misused the dispute-resolution mechanism of the 2015 nuclear deal without any legal or logical justification.
Baghaei rejected as “sheer falsehood” the G7 claim that the US and its European allies had acted in good faith and presented diplomatic solutions to avoid escalation. He reminded that the Israeli regime had carried out a military strike against Iran in the middle of diplomatic talks with US coordination and support, followed by a direct American attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
The spokesman said Washington bears primary responsibility for the current situation, having unilaterally withdrawn from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018 and repeatedly violated international law while obstructing the deal’s implementation. He added that the three European states, by following the US lead and failing to honor their commitments, not only committed “significant non-performance” of their JCPOA obligations but also deliberately ignored Iran’s diplomatic initiatives.
Baghaei also criticized the G7’s silence on the Israeli regime’s undeclared nuclear arsenal, calling the group’s approach to non-proliferation “hypocritical.” He stressed that the seven countries lack any moral authority to lecture others on international law, peace, or security given their duplicitous and irresponsible conduct.
The remarks came after G7 foreign ministers issued a statement in support of the European troika’s activation of the so-called “snapback mechanism” to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran. The statement stated that the measures, including the reactivation of Security Council resolutions 1696, 1737, 1747, 1803, 1835, and 1929, took effect on September 27, 2025.
The G7 called on all UN member states to fully implement the restrictions and pledged swift enforcement.
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