On Thursday 28 August, the foreign ministers of Germany, France and the United Kingdom (E3) announced that their countries had decided to notify the United Nations Security Council on the same day of Iran’s “significant non-performance of its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and hereby invoke the process known as the ‘snapback’ mechanism”, i.e. the reinstatement of sanctions against Iran.
According to the ministers, since 2019 Iran has exceeded...