The UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has issued a statement Friday confirming once again that Iran remains fully in compliance with the P5+1 nuclear deal, and is in line with all nuclear limits contained within that pact.
Since the deal went into effect, the IAEA has issued monthly reports
repeatedly confirming that Iran has remained in full compliance. To the
extent that there has been difficulty in keeping levels of material
below the caps, it was related to the US reneging on a promise to buy
heavy water from Iran, and even that was quickly resolved.
Since the US withdrew outright from the nuclear deal in 2018, they have
been pressuring the other signatories to also abandon the deal. The
IAEA, however, has defended the terms of the deal, and has been
increasingly public about Iran’s compliance continuing in good faith.
The US maintains that Iran is in some non-specific way in violation of
the deal, though when pressed on the matter it appears to simply boil
down to the Trump Administration objecting to the deal’s terms, not that
Iran isn’t keeping its word.
The USA is so exceptional that anything it does has no need to have reason behind it.
How dare the Iranians remain in compliance. How will the EU be able to drop the deal with dignity if the Iranians won’t?
Clearly more provocation is needed.