The State Department is urging Tehran to comply with JCPOA obligations before the U.S. returns to the 2015 contract.
The United States said Tuesday it was too early to accept Iran’s proposal for the EU to help revive a nuclear deal, reiterating calls for Tehran to come to full compliance.
Iran nuclear facility in Bushehr
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U.S. President Joe Biden is seeking a return to the 2015 treaty, known as the Joint Action Plan, but it is not set to change that Iran must adhere to it first.
“If Iran returns to full compliance with its obligations under the JCPOA, the United States would do the same,” new State Department defense Ned Price told reporters.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price at a press conference Tuesday
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The administration “consults with our friends, consults with our partners, consults with Congress before we reach the point where we engage in just by the Iranians and [be] willing to host a proposal of any kind, “Price said.
Iran has demanded that the United States impose sanctions imposed by former President Donald Trump before Tehran withdraws nuclear measures it has taken to protest its pressure campaign.
Offering a way out of the diplomatic situation, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suggested in an interview broadcast on Monday that the European Union would coordinate to “synchronize” actions with the United States and Iran. .
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Moscow last week
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Iran has deepened a major breach of its 2015 nuclear deal, enriching uranium with a growing number of advanced centrifuge installations in an underground plant while opposing the new U.S. administration on saving its would like.
“Iran has completed one of these three waterfalls, containing 174 IR-2m centrifuges, and, on January 30, 2021, Iran began feeding the waterfall with UF6,” the International Atomic Energy Agency said. national in a report received by Reuters on Tuesday. , referring to the uranium hexafluoride feedstock.
The IAEA later confirmed that the Islamic Republic had begun to enrich itself with the second ban.