U.N. Won’t Act on U.S. Effort to ‘Snapback’ Iran Sanctions, Citing Opposition From Security Council Members

The United Nations Security Council gained’t act on a U.S. bid to reimpose multilateral sanctions towards Iran, its president introduced Tuesday, following a near-unanimous rejection of Washington’s standing to accomplish that.

Thirteen of the 15 members of the panel have mentioned the U.S. can’t reinstate the sanctions as a result of it withdrew from the 2015 multilateral nuclear accord that supplied that authority.

“It…