China condemns Iran Snapback sanctions as not constructive

China has questioned Europe’s plan to put sanctions on Iran again on the country’s core program, and warned that this could aggravate the situation. Guo Jiakun, spokesperson for the China’s foreign minister, said on Friday during a daily press briefing in Beijing. “The initiation of a setback of sanctions in the Security Council is not constructive and will undermine the political and diplomatic process of solving the Iranian core issue.” France, Germany and the United Kingdom on Thursday referred to the United Nations to face the reinstatement of international sanctions after failing to negotiate the demands and core inspectors to resume their work. China was an important participant in the Obama-era agreement that limited the core activity of Iran in exchange for relieving sanctions, before Donald Trump’s withdrawal in 2018. The move of Europe was opposed by China and Russia, arguing that the effort itself is a violation of the 2015 agreement, and that even if the sanctions are reinstated, they were not as widely observed as a decade ago. China, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, will help the Iranian core issue to return to the trail of diplomatic resolution at an early time, “Guo said. said.