TEHERAN - Iran will"automatically" return to its nuclear commitments if US President-elect Joe Biden lifts sanctions imposed over the past two years, its foreign minister said on Wednesday .
While Mr Trump has sought to maximise pressure on Iran and isolate it globally, Mr Biden has proposed to offer the Islamic republic a"credible path back to diplomacy". Iran, which denies it is seeking to build a nuclear bomb, has since May 2019 gradually suspended most of its key obligations under the agreement.
Senior officials reportedly"dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike", warning him that such an attack could escalate into a broader conflict in the last weeks of his presidency. An International Atomic Energy Agency report last week showed Teheran had installed a cascade, an interlinked cluster, of advanced IR-2m machines underground at Natanz, having moved them from an above-ground plant where it was already enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges in breach of the deal.
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