Return of UN sanctions and resignations of Pezeshkian's ministers

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0:01 Hello. It is Friday, 28 Shahrivar 1404, September 19, 2025. The sad story of the dead-end nuclear project entered a new phase today. Article 11 of UN Security Council Resolution 2231 was in effect the backbone of the JCPOA, and under that resolution the UN sanctions had been lifted. Under that same article, if any members of the P5+1 complained that Iran had violated the terms of the JCPOA, they could set in motion the mechanism set out in paragraphs 21 to 24 of that same resolution and Article 36 of the JCPOA,

1:00 and ultimately the matter would come to the Security Council. The three European countries followed this path, and in the Security Council session, the President of the Security Council, currently South Korea, which holds the rotating presidency, submits a resolution on which members vote on whether the lifting of the Islamic Republic's sanctions under Resolution 2231 should in effect be extended, and no one has the right to veto it. This was done today. South Korea had submitted what could be called a procedural draft. Nine countries, including America, France and Britain, which hold veto power,

1:57 voted to reject it, meaning they want the sanctions to return, and four countries, namely Algeria, Pakistan, Russia and China, voted to continue lifting the sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Two countries, South Korea itself and Guyana, abstained, which technically counts as a negative vote. So in this way the UN Security Council voted for the sanctions to return, and the return of the sanctions, the trigger mechanism or snapback, meaning the immediate return of the sanctions, was set in motion, effective September 28th.

2:53 That is when it begins. In effect, from September 28th, that is, one week from now, all six resolutions that had been lifted, all of them under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, will return. Chapter VII of the UN Charter is in fact the chapter under which actions threatening international peace and security fall; the Security Council acts at its own discretion, and all members of the United Nations, nearly 200 countries, are obligated to comply and cooperate so that international peace and security are not endangered.

3:52 These six resolutions that are returning include things such as banking sanctions against Iran, sanctions on purchasing dual-use goods, sanctions prohibiting arms exports to Iran, and dozens of other matters, in addition to the sanctions America has already imposed on exports of oil, petrochemical products, steel and many other things. Of course, none of these resolutions bans the purchase of food and medicine, except for some raw materials for pharmaceutical factories which, again at the Security Council's discretion, may be deemed dual-use and could be used in the nuclear industry

4:46 or related activities. In any case, this event is the result of the imprudence of the Islamic Republic and of Mr. Khamenei personally. There is still a faint glimmer of hope, and that is that between now and September 28th, the Islamic Republic abandons these proposals with no strings attached, which contain no commitments at all, comes forward clearly and accepts the Europeans' three conditions, meaning it comes and says it will sit at the table with America, and sit directly. America's conditions: it must be willing to sit at the table directly; it must stop enrichment, which for now is now entirely banned for it altogether. America's conditions;

5:39 it must accept the IAEA's inspections together with American inspections, and state clearly where those 406 or 408 kilos of 60% enriched uranium are, and take the inspectors there so they can see it. But so far the Islamic Republic has taken a path that the whole world, both the Americans and the Europeans, say is the same old method of stalling and dragging the matter out. So they will not accept the Islamic Republic delaying any further. With the help of Russia and China, the Islamic Republic had also submitted a resolution to the IAEA Board of Governors under which attacks on nuclear facilities would be prohibited. But with the heavy lobbying that

6:38 the Americans did, talking with various countries and even threatening the IAEA with cutting its funding, the funding America provides and the aid it gives, the Islamic Republic itself was forced to withdraw that resolution from the IAEA as well. In any case, this heavy avalanche that will come crashing down on the country's economy, on top of all its other problems, is a matter whose main culprit is this nuclear project, building a bomb. If anyone asks, "Suppose you did build it, then what do you want to do? Where do you want to use it? What deterrence does it provide?" no one has given a clear answer. And this cat-and-mouse

7:33 game, which for twenty-some years has consumed the entire capacity of our country, has in effect sacrificed a generation and brought the country's economy to this state. With the continuing influence of Russia in Iran, which wants Iran weak like this, and with the corrupt gangs of plunder and power, with Khamenei himself at their head, our country has been brought to a situation where the outlook ahead will be far worse even than this. It is interesting that these gentlemen are content with little things. For example, Mr. Iravani, Iran's representative at the United Nations, who was also the last speaker

8:25 in the Security Council, wanted to prove that Europe had broken its commitments, that supposedly it is their fault, that legally they had no right, and other matters that do nothing to remedy the country's ills. Or Mr. Baghaei, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, is content to ask why Mr. Macron told an Israeli media outlet yesterday that the sanctions would return, as if to prove that Israel is behind this affair. Suppose it were, a matter which in fact isn't even true; there was in effect a kind of consensus, although Israel was also active in lobbying for these sanctions to return. But these things do nothing to remedy our people's ills. In any case, the outcome and the balance of international power are such

9:19 that when you act imprudently and want to take on the entire order, dynamics and balance of power of the world, you end up exactly where the Islamic Republic has brought our people. In these same conditions, the prospect of the dire situation of industries and of more than 6 million industrial workers is a problem that, like a tsunami, is in effect approaching from afar. Among them is the country's automotive industry, one of the largest industries in the country in terms of employment and scale. It has been reported that the automakers have more than 310,000 billion tomans in accumulated losses, and that

10:15 their production this year has fallen by more than 30 to 40 percent compared to last year. The Tehran Association of Auto Parts Manufacturers and Allied Industries has also said that for SAIPA alone, one of the automotive giants, more than 11,000 billion tomans' worth of checks it issued to parts makers have bounced. In fact, when a reputable enterprise like SAIPA or Iran Khodro has its checks bounce like this, it is a sign of complete bankruptcy. Iran's automotive industry, which no one is satisfied with, neither the consumer nor the producer, suffers from chronic diseases, foremost among them state ownership and state monopolies, the absence of real competition, the absence of real privatization, being cut off from the world and from new

11:15 technologies, as well as inflation and the decline in people's purchasing power, and finally administrative and customs problems and so on, and mandated pricing that in a way imposes losses on the automakers, as on many other productive sectors of the country. In any case, in this situation, news is also coming from within the government that at least several of Mr. Pezeshkian's ministers have gone and seriously resigned, saying they no longer have the capacity to continue working. Problems such as a Majlis that is, at every moment, an imprudent and foolish Majlis that constantly gets in their way; problems of electricity shortages, energy investment, and these same

12:13 sanctions and the lack of relations with the world, and so on and so forth, have all come together and brought a number of Pezeshkian's ministers to a dead end. This is a problem we will address in future programs as we get more news, and this too is one of the consequences of the chaos in the country's top leadership and ultimately of Mr. Khamenei personally, who for now is still moving from one hiding hole to another. Hoping for the victory of Iran and Iranians.