Editorial

15:00 JST, September 30, 2025

The U.N. sanctions against Iran that were suspended under the 2015 nuclear agreement have been reinstated.

While reinstatement was unavoidable given Iran’s failure to live up to its commitments, the nuclear deal has effectively collapsed, and the chance for a diplomatic resolution to the nuclear issue has further diminished. It is an alarming situation in which the nuclear nonproliferation regime has been undermined and the crisis in the Middle East has further deepened.

In 2015, Iran and a group of six countries — the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia and China — reached an intergovernmental agreement to lift sanctions on Iran in exchange for restrictions on the country’s nuclear development. However, this time, the United Kingdom, France and Germany led the reinstatement of the........

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