Last week, Tehran said it had enriched more than the limit of 660 pounds of low-grade non-fissile uranium stipulated under the deal.
Iran's Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi, left, government spokesman Ali Rabiei and Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi address the press in Tehran on Sunday.
In May 2018, President Trump unilaterally pulled the U.S. out of the deal that Iran had made with world powers, and was complying with, and announced a series of “maximum pressure” sanctions designed to paralyze Iran’s economy by pummeling its currency and drastically reducing its oil exports. Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said there was still no need to enrich uranium to the 20% required by Tehran’s research reactor.On Sunday, Araghchi lashed out at European nations for failing to fulfill their obligations under the accord, as well as their slow implementation of a non-dollar financial channel known as the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges, or INSTEX, which would help offset the effect of U.S. sanctions on Iran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted Sunday’s measure was a legal one under the terms of the pact.
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