The UN Security Council has rejected another last-ditch effort to delay the reimposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, a day before the deadline and after Western countries claimed that weeks of meetings failed to result in a "concrete" agreement.

The resolution put forth by Russia and China — Iran's most powerful and closest allies on the 15-member council — failed to garner support on Friday (September 26, 2025) from the nine countries required to halt the series of UN sanctions from taking effect Saturday, as outlined in Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Barring an eleventh-hour deal, the reinstatement of sanctions — triggered by Britain, France and Germany — will once again freeze Iranian assets abroad, halt arms deals with Tehran and penalise any dev

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