{"id":337389,"date":"2025-09-23T15:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=337389"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:55:57","slug":"iranian-regime-mps-call-for-nuclear-weapons-as-un-snapback-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/iranian-regime-mps-call-for-nuclear-weapons-as-un-snapback-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Regime MPs Call for Nuclear Weapons as UN Snapback Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The return of United Nations sanctions on Iran through the snapback mechanism in U.N. Resolution 2231 has triggered one of the sharpest crises in the history of the clerical dictatorship. With the Security Council\u2019s failure on September 20, 2025, to extend sanctions relief, the countdown has begun for the automatic reinstatement of past measures. Inside Tehran, the development has brought admissions of diplomatic defeat, fierce factional disputes, and for the first time, explicit parliamentary calls to build nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

The official website of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei conceded Iran had lost at the UN. In a September 20 editorial titled <\/a>Europe\u2019s Dictation with America\u2019s Copybook<\/em>, it admitted that despite \u201cconsiderable flexibility\u201d shown by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Cairo with IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, Europe pressed ahead with snapback. The rare acknowledgment underscored the collapse of Tehran\u2019s latest effort to avert sanctions.<\/p>\n

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Factional Infighting Over \u201cNuclear Compromise\u201d Exposes #Iranian<\/a> Regime\u2019s Deep Crisishttps:\/\/t.co\/bYCijKZyGm<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n