SAEDNEWS: Revived threats by three European signatories to “snap back” UN sanctions on Iran have reignited Tehran’s pivot eastward and prompted calls for deeper regional security cooperation.
According to Saed News, recent warnings from the UK, France and Germany to activate the snapback mechanism under UN Security Council Resolution 2231 have unsettled Iran and highlighted Europe’s waning leverage on the nuclear dossier. European officials argue that the tool enables them to exert influence over Tehran, but Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araghchi has dismissed this as a strategic error, cautioning that snapback threats will further complicate negotiations and risk repeating the miscalculations of a military backlash.
Iranian outlets underscore a broader strategic shift. An editorial in Siasat‑e‑Rooz hailed a trilateral meeting of interior ministers from Iran, Iraq and Pakistan in Tehran as a blueprint for countering terrorism and rebalancing regional security—a move presented as an interactive alternative to Western pressure. Meanwhile, Ham Mihan’s commentary warns that whereas the 2015 JCPOA once promised sanction relief, today’s snapback rhetoric—fuelled by broken commitments such as the 2018 US withdrawal—only deepens mistrust and imperils any future accord.
Against this backdrop, the Iran newspaper highlights Araghchi’s concurrent visit to Beijing, framing China’s growing role in multilateral institutions like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS as a counterweight to an increasingly partisan Europe. Tehran’s calculus, the paper argues, now envisions a “new model of nuclear diplomacy” with eastern partners who remain “neutral and effective,” contrasting sharply with what it perceives as Europe’s diminishing impartiality.
As snapback discussions intensify, Iran’s simultaneous outreach to neighbours and eastern powers signals a determined effort to sidestep European coercion—and to redefine the architecture of nuclear diplomacy in a multipolar era.
