Iran Snapback Impact Depends On Enforcement, Expert Says

"The United Nations is poised to reimpose sweeping "snapback" sanctions on Iran after the Security Council rejected a last-minute effort by Russia and China to stall the move. Barring an unexpected breakthrough, the measures will take effect at 8 p.m. Eastern time on September 27. The sanctions include a conventional arms embargo, restrictions on ballistic-missile activity, a ban on uranium enrichment and reprocessing, as well as global asset freezes and travel bans targeting Iranian individuals and entities."

"Barring any last-minute unforeseen Hail Marys by the Russians or Chinese or a massive concession by America or the Europeans, snapback is basically on track. What snapback does is it restores the six UN Security Council resolutions that previously existed governing Iran's nuclear program between 2006 and 2010 and that were actively enforced up until 2015. So it restores all of the multilateral pressures, prohibitions, sanctions, you name it, that were contained in those six resolutions."

"By way of example, there's stuff related to the nuclear program that calls on Iran not to enrich uranium or reprocess plutonium. There's a lot of political attention paid to getting inspectors back into Iran. There are sanctions against Iran's missile and nuclear infrastructure. There are permanent arms transfer bans. There are permanent ballistic-missile testing and transfer bans. And then there's also travel prohibitions as well."

The United Nations will reimpose snapback sanctions on Iran after the Security Council rejected a last-minute Russian and Chinese effort to stall the move. The measures will take effect at 8 p.m. Eastern on September 27. The snapback restores the six UN Security Council resolutions that governed Iran's nuclear program between 2006 and 2010 and were enforced until 2015. Restored measures include prohibitions on uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing, a conventional arms embargo, permanent bans on ballistic-missile testing and transfers, sanctions on missile and nuclear infrastructure, inspectors returning to Iran, global asset freezes, and travel bans targeting Iranian individuals and entities. The European Union and other actors retain complementary sovereign sanctions.

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