Security Council confirms Iran nuclear deal

However, it contains a “snap back” mechanism that will reverse the lifting of sanctions if Tehran breaches the deal it signed last week with the P5+1 group of countries – China, France, Russia, the UK, the US and Germany.

The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously endorsed Iran’s nuclear agreement with world powers, a move which US President Barack Obama said reflects broad international support for last week’s deal.

“This is by far our strongest approach to ensuring that Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon”, Obama said from the Oval office Monday alongside Nigerian President Mahammadu Buhari, who was making his first visit to the United States.

According to the resolution, seven previous United Nations resolutions on Iran will be terminated when the worldwide Atomic Energy Agency submits a report to the council verifying that Iran has implemented certain nuclear-related measures. “The serious stakes of the issue merit a debate that rejects the false choice between accepting this agreement and advocating for war“.

Britain’s UN Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said “the world is now a safer place in the knowledge that Iran cannot now build a nuclear bomb”.

The US defense secretary said his country and Israel had a “common commitment to countering Iranian malign influence in the region” and that Israel would remain “the bedrock of American strategy in the Middle East.”

As part of the accord, both bodies agreed to end crippling economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for new limits to its domestic nuclear program. “We are deeply concerned that your administration plans to enable the United Nations Security Council to vote on the agreement before the United States Congress can do the same”, wrote the senators.

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully expects the door to trade deals with Iran will be back open soon following the historic nuclear deal.

Israel remains strongly opposed to the deal and its government maintains it has not ruled out a unilateral military option against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

He accused the United States of “feckless and reckless acts” by invading Iraq and Afghanistan. This deal is bad for America, bad for the world and bad for Israel. They asked Mr Ban to send the letter to the Security Council.