Russia’s delegate, Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia, took aim at the Slovenian presidency of the Council, regretting that they did not „find the courage to impartially uphold your obligation not to act at the behest of those who insisted on holding a Security Council meeting on a non-existent agenda item“.

“The JCPOA Committee does not exist anymore,” he added. “Therefore, the EU is not the coordinator anymore and therefore should not be allowed to brief the UN Security Council“.

Speaking for Iran, Ambassador Amir-Saeid Iravani insisted that Resolution 2231 (2015) expired on 18 October 2025, and thus “ceased to have any legal effect or operative mandate“. He concluded that there is “no mandate for the Secretary-General to submit any report and no mandate for the Council to hold discussions on it”.

Today, he said, the Council is witnessing “a calculated distortion“ of the resolution and the “deliberate dissemination of disinformation” about Iran’s nuclear programme.