Iranian FM says Iran-IAEA agreement will end if sanctions return

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi said Friday that his country's cooperation agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would be gone if UN sanctions were to return. The UN Security Council on Friday failed to adopt a resolution that would have extended the 2015 Iran nuclear deal for six months to allow time for diplomacy and avoid a snapback of UN sanctions against Iran.

As such, the snapback is set to take effect on Sept. 28, at the end of a 30-day window, in the absence of further Security Council action. Iran and the IAEA reached an agreement to resume cooperation in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Sept. 9.