Sanctions against Iran are set to be reinstated on 28 September unless a solution is negotiated beforehand. On Friday 19 September, the UN Security Council voted in favour of reinstating sanctions against the Iranian regime, due to Tehran’s failure to comply with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran’s nuclear programme, agreed in 2015.
Jérôme Bonnafont, the French ambassador to the UN, said: “We have done everything we can to find an alternative” to...