SpaceWar.com reports: “Iran said Thursday it was working with China and Russia to prevent the snapback of European sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear programme after Britain, France and Germany threatened to reimpose them.

‘We will try to prevent it,’ Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said in an interview with state TV.

‘We are working with China and Russia to stop it. If this does not work and they apply it, we have tools to respond. We will discuss them in due course.’

The trio of European powers, known as the E3, told the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday that they were ready to reimpose sanctions on Tehran if no diplomatic solution was found by the end of August.

All three were signatories to a 2015 deal that lifted sanctions in return for curbs on Iran’s nuclear programme…”