a minute agoUN: Iran Respecting Nuclear Agreement
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Iran is respecting the nuclear agreement reached in 2015 with the six world powers, the United Nations agency has said. So says the first quarterly report by the Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which media in the United States have seen. It says that official Tehran is meeting the main requirements of the agreement. This report [...]
So says the first quarterly report by the Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which media in the United States have seen. It says that official Tehran is meeting the main requirements of the agreement.
This report comes four months before US President Donald Trump's deadline for Congress and European Allies to regulate, what he has called the catastrophic “shortcomings” in agreement, or face the United States' withdrawal from this agreement.
Trump and other American officials have said Tehran is violating the “spirit of the agreement and that it is using its ballistic missile program to avoid nuclear restrictions.
Iran rejects these claims and insists it is sticking to the agreement, saying its nuclear programme is strictly for energy generation purposes.
President Trump has also voiced concerns that some provisions of the agreement -- signed by his predecessor -- will expire in 2026.
The nuclear agreement signed between Iran and the US, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia imposes restrictions on Tehran's nuclear programme in exchange for easing economic sanctions on the state.
Reports of the UN agency have repeatedly said Iran is maintaining the deal, which has been in force for two years.
