European nations, particularly the UK and France, are prepared to impose significant sanctions on Iran if it does not clarify its nuclear program and permit UN inspections. Iran's fragile ceasefire with the US and Israel could escalate into conflict without a diplomatic solution. The E3 nations have the ability to activate snapback UN sanctions inherited from the 2015 nuclear deal and have attempted to leverage these to encourage US participation in negotiations. Iran demands guarantees regarding Israeli military actions to restart talks with the US.
Iran faces even more pressure in the coming weeks because the E3 can snap back on our sanctions, and it's not just our sanctions, it's actually a UN mechanism that would impose dramatic sanctions on Iran across nearly every single front in its economy.
The three countries are also using their power to reimpose UN sanctions as a lever to persuade the US to join the talks with the Iranians, but have so far had no success.
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