A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency on July 29, 2020 shows President Hassan Rouhani speaking during a cabinet session in the capital Tehran. (IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP)

TEHRAN - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday vowed continued resistance against the US sanctions that will eventually "break and go away."

In response to what the United States calls its “maximum pressure” campaign of unilateral sanctions - a bid to get Iran to negotiate a new deal - Tehran has breached central limits of the 2015 pact, including on its stock of enriched uranium

"Neither will the oppressors at the White House, nor the sanctions stay forever. The sanctions will break and go away," Rouhani was quoted by semi-official Fars news agency as saying at a cabinet meeting.

Commenting on the US failure to pass through at the UN Security Council a resolution that asks for extending the current arms embargo against Iran, Rouhani stated that Washington cannot use the snapback mechanism under UN Security Council Resolution 2213 to snap back UN sanctions against Iran.

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"All countries knowledgeable in political and legal matters have denounced and are denouncing the US," the Iranian president said. 

Rouhani's comments come as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet Indonesia’s UN Ambassador Dian Triansyah Djani - council president for August - to submit a complaint about Iran’s non-compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal, even though Washington quit the accord in 2018, Reuters reports from Washington.  

The nuclear deal between Iran, Russia, China, Germany, Britain, France and the United States aimed to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons in return for sanctions relief. That accord is enshrined in a 2015 Security Council resolution. '

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In response to what the United States calls its “maximum pressure” campaign of unilateral sanctions - a bid to get Iran to negotiate a new deal - Tehran has breached central limits of the 2015 pact, including on its stock of enriched uranium. 

Diplomats say the so-called sanctions snapback process will be messy as Russia, China and other countries question the legality of the US move given that Washington itself is no longer complying with what Trump called the “worst deal ever.” 

Once Pompeo submits the complaint about Iran to the Security Council, the body has 30 days to adopt a resolution to extend sanctions relief for Tehran or else the measures will automatically snap back. Any attempt to extend the sanctions relief would be vetoed by the United States.
With inputs from Reuters