August 21, 2020
- The term "snapback" is never employed in either the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231. Rather, the U.S. has intentionally used the term to connote rapidity and automaticity. The wording in UNSCR 2231 is actually "reapplication of the provisions of terminated resolutions," which requires an elaborate time-consuming process—intended to preserve the JCPOA, and not to destroy it.
- It is clear that the U.S. has no right to the "reapplication of the provisions of terminated resolutions" against Iran for the following reasons:
