UN Security Council votes to reimpose Iran nuclear sanctions

The United Nations Security Council voted on Friday, after European pressure, to reimpose deep economic sanctions on Iran over its resurgent nuclear program, triggering an angry reaction from Tehran.

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Britain, France and Germany are signatories to a 2015 deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) intended to stop Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

The trio allege that Iran has broken its promises under the treaty.

“We urge (Iran) to act now,” said British ambassador Barbara Woodward, casting a vote against a resolution that would have allowed extending a suspension of the sanctions.

She left the door open for diplomacy at the UN general assembly next week, when heads of state and government will gather in New York.

But Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s envoy to the UN, told the UN Security Council described the vote as the “politics of coercion.”