China: Pompeo’s call to reinstate nuclear-related sanctions on Iran goes against “international consensus”
Beijing has said the US has no right to demand sanctions on Iran are reinstated because it was Washington that “had broken its promises” by ditching the 2015 nuclear deal.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters the US has no right to demand the so-called “snapback” of sanctions on Iran, because Washington unilaterally abandoned the 2015 agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, known as the JCPOA, two years ago.
“The participants of the JCPOA and the vast majority of the UN Security Council members do not believe that the US request has any legal grounds, and that the ‘snapback’ mechanism should be activated,” he said.