Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 19
By Elnur Baghishov - Trend:
Iran is working on its third measure aimed at abandoning Iran’s commitments to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in line with the steps taken by other involved parties, Iran's Foreign Ministry's spokesman Abbas Mousavi said at a press conference, Trend reports referring to Tasnim News Agency.
According to him, consultations on the fulfillment of commitments by the European parties in the JCPOA have so far not been fruitful.
Mousavi added that Iran is waiting to see what the diplomatic endeavors will accomplish in the coming weeks. "After that, Iran’s JCPOA Supervisory Board will decide on what action to take with regards to the plan of action," he said.
In January 2016, the JCPOA was implemented between Iran and the P5+1 group (the US, Russia, China, UK, France and Germany) in connection with Iran's nuclear program. In May 2018, the US announced its withdrawal from the deal and imposed sanctions against Iran in November of the same year. In order to preserve the agreements reached as part of the JCPOA, the European signatories of the deal stated in January 2019 that a financial mechanism for maintaining trade with Iran called INSTEX was formed.
On May 8, 2019, Iran announced that it had ceased fulfilling its commitments regarding the sale of over 300 kilograms of uranium, as stated in the deal, basing its decision on the other signatories having not fulfilled their obligations. On July 7, Iran announced that it will not be fulfilling its commitments regarding the enrichment of uranium at 3.67 percent and the reconstruction of the Arak Heavy Water Reactor Facility as stated in the deal.
The 60-day deadline given by Iran to European countries involved ends on September 7.