The United Nations nuclear watchdog has been unable to verify the size and location of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium since June. At last count, the country had enough near-weapons-grade material that,

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 (Reuters) - United Nations sanctions on Iran are set to be reimposed on Saturday, Britain's U.N. envoy said on Friday after a Russian and Chinese Security Council resolution to delay them failed, prompting Tehran to warn that the West bore responsibility for any consequences.

The United Nations reimposed sanctions on Iran early Sunday over its nuclear program, further squeezing the Islamic Republic as its people increasingly find themselves unable to afford food.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at the U_N_ to blast Israeli and U_S_ attacks in June as inflicting “a grievous blow upon international trust and the very prospect of peace in the region.

The UN reimposed sanctions on Iran after last-ditch talks between Tehran and European powers failed to resolve the latest of decades of standoffs over Iran's nuclear program.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi appealed to the U.N. Secretary General to stop attempts to reinstate U.N. sanctions. Araqchi emphasized that Tehran will not acknowledge any actions to revive these sanctions or related mechanisms.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday rejected another last-ditch effort to delay the reimposition of sanctions on Iran a day before the deadline after Western countries claimed that weeks of meeting with officials failed to result in a “concrete” agreement.