TEHRAN, Jan 6 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran announced the fifth and final step to end its commitments to the landmark 2015 nuclear deal.
“In the fifth step of withdrawing from its commitments, the Islamic republic drops the last key restriction under the nuclear deal, namely ‘restriction on the number of centrifuges’.”
Therefore, “Iran’s nuclear programme will no longer brace any practical restrictions, including the level and purity of enrichment, the mass of enriched materials and R&D activities,” read the announcement.
“From now on, Iran’s nuclear programme will advance based on its own technical requirements it said.
Iran had said that the cut of obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal was a “wake-up call” for the remaining parties of the deal to protect Iran’s economic interests.
In a reaction to the U.S. withdrawal from the landmark 2015 Iranian nuclear deal in May 2018 and the subsequent sanctions, and in a response to Europe’s sluggishness in facilitating Iran’s banking transactions and its oil exports, Iran, since May 2019, made staged moves to drop its nuclear commitments.
“As before, Iran will continue its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),” according to Iran’s announcement on Sunday.
