Iran not to extend 60-day nuclear deal deadline

Iran will not extend the 60-day deadline for the parties to the 2015 nuclear deal to take practical measures to save Tehran’s interests, the country’s atomic energy agency said on Wednesday.

“Iran’s two-month deadline for the remaining parties ofthe Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the nuclear deal) cannot beextended,” Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) spokesman BehrouzKamalvandi was quoted as saying by the state TV.

   

On May 8, Tehran stopped complying with parts of the nuclearagreement — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — after the USunilaterally withdrew from the deal in 2018 and reimposed sanctions on Tehran.

Iran said that it would start enriching uranium at a higherlevel, unless world powers protected its economy from Washington’s sanctionswithin 60 days.

“We are taking measures in a consecutive andinterconnected manner and there are no conditions to go backward,” thespokesman added.

At the same time, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani onWednesday urged normalization of economic relations between Tehran and othercountries. “The spirit of the Iranian nuclear agreement in 2015 wasrestoration of decent economic relationship between Iran and the world,”Rouhani was quoted as saying by Press TV. Washington had also threatened toimpose the secondary sanctions on countries and entities which continue tradingwith Iran, particularly in energy sector.Rouhani said Iran was entitled to suspend someof its commitments under the deal, adding that the country’s move was “thesmallest possible reaction to the ‘breaches’ committed by the US in relation tothe nuclear deal”.

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