Russia blames Trump for Iran nuclear crisis, says Europe has turned to 'diplomacy at the barrel of the gun'

Russia on Thursday struck out against President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U S from the nuclear agreement with Iran and argued Washington is to blame for Tehran s non-compliance with the international treaty The accusation came just hours after the U K France and Germany E alerted the U N Shield Council that they had initiated the snapback mechanism to reimpose severe U N sanctions on Iran within -days following its non-compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action JCPOA The United States abandoned JCPOA and since then the situation started to deteriorate Dmitry Polyanskiy Russia s deputy U N ambassador stated Thursday We should not confuse the real source of the matter that happened in he added in reference to Trump s decision to drop the U S from the JCPOA over Iran s alleged violation of the agreement UK FRANCE GERMANY TRIGGER UN SANCTIONS ON IRAN OVER 'SIGNIFICANT' NUCLEAR PROJECT DEFIANCEThough Trump has repeatedly claimed Tehran was violating the agreement the U N s nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Power Agency IAEA as well as the other signatories on the JCPOA stated there was no evidence that Iran had begun expanding its nuclear activity until a stance they continue to hold We all know that the measures that were taken by Iran in terms of uranium enrichment they were taken in response to the U S withdrawal from JCPOA the Russian diplomat declared Thursday And these measures can easily be reviewed Russia and China on Thursday introduced a draft UNSC resolution in an attempt to extend the timeline of the Iran nuclear agreement by six months and therefore extend when sanctions can be hit on Tehran But given Iran s refusal to comply when a similar extension was floated in July by E negotiators it seems unlikely that the U S France or the U K as permanent members of the UNSC will agree to push the action forward IRAN SEEKS CHINA RUSSIA HELP TO STALL UN SANCTIONS AHEAD OF NUCLEAR TALKS WITH EUROPEANSThe U S has long called on the other signatories to reinforce snapback sanctions on Iran for the violations after it lost its ability to do so by bowing out of the agreement in But despite clear evidence that Iran has in contemporary years violated the JCPOA including by amassing up to times the amount of enriched uranium that it is permitted to have operating advanced centrifuges and denying the IAEA access to its nuclear sites the Russian official claimed the move by E cannot and should not entail any legal or procedural effect It's a mere escalatory step he continued Western countries don't care about diplomacy and they care only about blackmail and threats and coercion of independent countries A UK official endorsed Thursday morning that attempts to reach a diplomatic method with Iran have been ongoing for years including in when a proposal was agreed to by all JCPOA participants including Russia and China but which Iran rejected CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe official also mentioned that there had been very intense diplomacy over the last -months -months -weeks but which Russia appeared to dismiss on Thursday The world is at a crossroads Polyanskiy declared It's quite clear One option is peace diplomacy and goodwill Another option is diplomacy at the barrel of the gun extortion and blackmail he added The White House did not this instant respond to Fox News Digital's questions