If Europe Wants to Sanction Iran, It Knows What to Do

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Under the proposed terms of the shorter, weaker nuclear accord the United States offered Iran in recent months, Tehran would receive an estimated $275 billion in revenue during the first year, rising to $1 trillion total by 2030.
52% : Iran would retain the ability to expand its nuclear centrifuge program with an eye toward the deal's full expiration in 2031.
50% : International sanctions also support transnational enforcement efforts such as the Proliferation Security Initiative, under which coalitions of states can act to interdict proliferation-related trade to or from Iran.
49% : Previous Security Council demands would be revived that Iran halt all enrichment and nuclear-capable ballistic missile activities, both crucial given Tehran's ongoing non-compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, including its efforts to hide nuclear sites and material from international inspectors.
48% : Besides the strong signal it would send to the regime in Tehran, completing snapback would have other key benefits.
48% : Besides the strong signal it would send to the regime in Tehran, completing snapback would have other key benefits.
44% : Iran would once again be isolated by the international community, with the potential for the world to expand trade and financial sanctions against the regime.
43% : In 2024, key nuclear restrictions on Iran will also begin to expire.
43% : An arms embargo prohibited the transfer of arms and conventional weapons, including drones, in and out of Iran.
43% : In 2024, key nuclear restrictions on Iran will also begin to expire.
41% : Beginning in 2006, the U.N. Security Council imposed escalating international sanctions and restrictions on Iran out of concern for its growing nuclear and missile activities.
39% : Britain, France, and Germany, as original participants in the Iran nuclear deal, have the power to take the most important step of all: the snapback of United Nations sanctions that are already on the books.
38% : The 2015 Iran nuclear deal, however, upended the U.N. sanctions framework on Iran.
38% : The 2015 Iran nuclear deal, however, upended the U.N. sanctions framework on Iran.
38% : Western proponents of the nuclear deal claim snapback is irrelevant, a step that would do nothing to stop the flow of drones and missiles from Iran to Russia or weaken the regime in the face of a national uprising.
38% : Meanwhile, Iranians are dying at the hands of the regime and Ukrainians are under lethal attacks from weapons made by Tehran and launched with the help of Iranian military advisors.
37% : By contrast, reviving the deal and allowing remaining U.N. sanctions to lapse means throwing Iran a financial lifeline when it is most vulnerable.
37% : Snapback, on the other hand, represents a turning of the page from an era of appeasing and accommodating Iran back to an era of pressure and accountability.
36% : But UNSCR 2231 also came with a "snapback" mechanism: a way for the original state parties to the Iran deal -- the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany -- to force the return of all prior U.N. sanctions if Tehran violates its commitments.
36% : Second, many governments use Security Council resolutions as a basis for national laws and regulations, including sanctions and other enforcement actions against Iran.
32% : With Iran today spinning enough advanced centrifuges to produce high-enriched uranium for several nuclear bombs, any party could at any time notify the Security Council that Iran is breaking its nuclear deal commitments.
24% : As Europe considers another round of sanctions targeting Iran for its deadly crackdown on protesters and the supply of arms to Russia, there is a ready sanctions tool already in place, whose activation would send an unmistakable message to Tehran.
20% : Multiple U.N. resolutions called on Iran to halt activities related to nuclear enrichment and banned Tehran from testing nuclear-capable missiles.
19% : First, as long as Western governments hedge their policies to preserve the potential to make a deal with Tehran, they will never fully support the protesters or hold Iran accountable for supporting Russia's war in Ukraine.
19% : Restoring prior resolutions on Iran gives those states justification to widen economic and political pressure, or at the very least, think twice about engaging in banned trade with Tehran.

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