A senior Iranian government official issued a threatening statement Sunday in response to several European countries’ plan to reimpose sanctions on Tehran for refusing to curb its nuclear program, warning that those nations would soon “lose it all.”

In a post on X, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed the UK, Germany, and France — known collectively as the E3 — have no authority to reinstate sanctions on Iran, which were lifted under the 2015 Obama-era nuclear deal. That agreement failed to stop Iran’s weapons development.

“It is not just that the E3 has no legal, political, or moral entitlement to invoke ‘snapback,’ and that even if they did, ‘use or lose it’ doesn’t work,” Araghchi wrote. “It’s that the correct expression for the E3’s dilemma is ‘use it and lose it.’ Or better yet, ‘use it and lose it all,’” he added.