Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says US president-elect Joe Biden can swiftly lift sanctions against Tehran through “three executive orders” once settled in the White House.

China says the removal of the UN arms embargo against Iran, which was clearly stipulated in Resolution 2231, should be “faithfully implemented.”

Government spokesman Ali Rabiei hails the lifting of the UN arms embargo on Iran as an “achievement,” saying it shows that the country adopted a “correct policy” when it chose to stay in the 2015 nuclear deal following the US pullout.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the US launched an economic war on Iran after leaving the 2015 nuclear deal based on the same “miscalculations” made by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1980, when he invaded the Islamic Republic.

Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements strongly condemn the latest US sanctions against Iran.

A new report says 13 countries of the 15-member UN Security Council have expressed their opposition to the US push to trigger the so-called snapback provision in the 2015 nuclear deal aimed at reinstating UN sanctions against Iran.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says a new US push to invoke the so-called snapback provision in the 2015 nuclear deal in order to re-impose all UN sanctions against Tehran is doomed to failure.

China welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call for a summit of world leaders on Iran, but the US turned down the offer after it lost its bid at the UNSC to extend an arms embargo on Tehran.

Iran says the US has "never been so isolated" in the UN's 75-year history after the Security Council rejected a resolution proposed by Washington to extend an arms ban on Tehran.

A Bloomberg opinion piece says the Europeans are “disinclined to help the US” win the UNSC approval for its anti-Iran resolution.