UN nuclear watchdog: Iran maintains compliance with 2015 pact
Source: The Hill
The United Nations (UN) nuclear watchdog confirmed Friday that Iran remained within key parameters set in the 2015 nuclear pact it signed with the U.S. and other world powers.
The news that Iran is respecting the nuclear limits, contained in a confidential report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that was uncovered by Reuters, comes as the Trump administration has renewed U.S. sanctions on the country after deciding to withdraw from the deal last year.
The IAEA certified that Iran was complying with the deal as recently as August. Tehran has maintained its nuclear program is solely for defensive purposes.
The White House reimposed stringent sanctions after its withdrawal from the deal in the hopes that Iran would come back to the negotiating table to work out a new one. European signatories of the deal, including Germany, France and Britain, have sought to blunt the impacts of those sanctions by improving trade relations with the Islamic Republic, a decision that infuriated White House officials.
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