The United Nations will reimpose broad sanctions on Iran after days of frantic diplomacy in New York failed to ease a standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program.

The clerical establishment faces existential crisis as concerns grow over economic collapse and potential Israeli strikes on nuclear sites.

Widespread UN sanctions against Iran returned into force late Saturday for the first time in a decade, after last-ditch nuclear talks with Western powers failed to produce a breakthrough.Iran has allowed UN inspectors to return to its nuclear sites,

Top diplomats from Europe and Iran met in New York to try to avert a fresh crisis over Tehran’s nuclear program, as the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader rejected prospects of new talks with the US.

On Saturday, the United Nations Security Council reimposed harsh sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, after the failure of a diplomatic marathon on the sidelines of the General Assembly this past week.

The United Nations on Sunday reimposed sweeping sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, reviving measures that freeze assets abroad, halt arms sales, and penalise its ballistic missile development.

UNITED NATIONS/VIENNA (Reuters) -The "snapback" re-imposition of U.N. sanctions on Iran lifted under a 2015 nuclear deal sends Western powers back to the drawing board on how to contain and monitor Iran's nuclear programme, diplomats and analysts say.

Iran has executed at least 1,000 people in a “mass killing campaign” over the past nine months, it has been revealed.

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The sanctions, three months after Israel and the United States bombed Iran, bar dealings related to Tehran's nuclear and ballistic missiles program.