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“We believe that the planned lifting of the UN conventional arms embargo... would have major implications for regional security and stability,” the E3 also said, adding that it was working in coordination with China and Russia on the issue.
Urging Iran to enter into a ministerial meeting, the E3 ministers said: “We remain committed to the JCPOA and, in order to preserve it, urge Iran to reverse all measures inconsistent with the agreement and return to full compliance without delay.”
The Iranians have been gradually scaling up their non-compliance with the nuclear deal in order to pressure the E3 to provide meaningful economic assistance to assist Iran in the face of crushing US sanctions.
2.4​ ​Iran facing IAEA rebuke for blocking access to suspected past nuclear sites
Iran is facing a formal rebuke from the UK, France and Germany at the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for refusing to cooperate with a request from the watchdog to inspect two sites suspected of past involvement in nuclear research.
The IAEA has not issued a rebuke against a country since 2012 when it rebuked Iran.
The head of the IAEA reiterated claims on June 15 that Iran was blocking its access to two now-defunct sites where nuclear research is believed to have been conducted in the early 2000s, if documents obtained and presented by the Israeli government are correct. Iran’s government has said the information was fabricated.
One facility was partially demolished, while the other had apparently been subject to efforts to “sanitize” it, removing evidence of nuclear research, the IAEA said. A third site was fully destroyed in the early 2000s.
The rebuke would come at a time when the US is pushing UN Security Council members to renew an arms embargo on Iran for violating obligations outlined under the 2015 nuclear deal. The Trump administration says it will move for a reimposition of UN sanctions on Iran if the embargo, set to expire in October, is not renewed. But Russia and China are expected to block any such move, and may also vote against the planned IAEA rebuke.
Russia, China and the European Union have said the US move to extend the arms embargo is not feasible because Washington unilaterally walked out of the nuclear accord in May 2018.
The IAEA has reported that Tehran has begun “enriching uranium beyond levels and quantities allowed under the deal. Iran says that is because it is receiving no meaningful benefits from the nuclear deal anymore—the US is attacking its economy with the type of crushing sanctions the agreement was supposed to prevent and the European signatories ot the accord have done almost nothing to shield the Islamic Republic’s trade from the American “economic war”, Tehran says. The Iranians say they will return to full compliance with the nuclear deal if they receive substantial economic
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