‘Spotlight,’ Press TV (Iran): E3 Move to reimpose UN sanctions

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 France, Britain and German, European cosigners of the JCPOA agreement that provided for international monitoring of Iran’s nuclear program and restrictions on uranium enrichment in exchange for lifting economic sanctions against Iran, are now poised to implement its ‘snapback’ provisions reimposing those sanctions within a month over allegations that Iran has failed to live up to its obligations under the JCPOA.

Of course, this prospect has provoked great concern in Teheran which is threatening to halt all cooperation with the international atomic agency. Meanwhile, Russia and China have protested the planned ‘snapback’ action at the United Nations.

Though my expertise on these matters is limited to the international context for the present snapback procedures, I accepted the request of ‘Spotlight’ producers to participate in the discussion.  Happily, I was joined by fellow panelist Massoud Shadjareh in London, an expert on the workings of the JCPOA agreement.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/08/29/753998/SLAMMING-‘ILLEGAL’-SNAPBACK

I call out here the point that the three European countries leading the effort to reimpose crushing sanctions on Iran, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, are precisely the ringleaders in efforts to sabotage the peace process in Ukraine and continue the fight against Russia to the last Ukrainian. I repeat here my assertion that what they are doing on Iran is precisely an effort to curry favor with Donald Trump with intent to bring him around to their anti-Russian, pro-Ukrainian positions. Thus, Iran’s likely suffering from renewed sanctions will be just collateral damage of the Ukraine war and its European promoters.

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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