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Monday 29 July 2019

Diplomats recommit to saving Iran deal, oppose US sanctions

By KIYOKO METZLER to have enough material
Associated Press to make an atomic bomb,
VIENNA (AP) — Diplomats something Iran denies it
from Iran and five world wants but that the deal
powers recommitted Sun- prevented.
day to salvaging a major So far, neither Iran's an-
nuclear deal amid mount- nouncement that it ex-
ing tensions between the ceeded the amount of
West and Tehran since the low-enriched uranium al-
U.S. withdrew from the ac- lowed under the deal nor
cord and reimposed sanc- its revelation it had begun
tions. enriching uranium past the
Representatives of Iran, 3.67% purity allowed, to
Germany, France, Britain, 4.5%, are seen as violations
China, Russia and the Euro- likely to prompt the Euro-
pean Union met in Vienna The European Union's political director Helga Schmid and Iran's deputy Foreign Minister Abbas pean parties to invoke a
to discuss the 2015 agree- Araghchi, center from left, wait for a bilateral meeting as part of the closed-door nuclear talks with dispute resolution mecha-
ment that restricts the Ira- Iran at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, July 28, 2019. nism.
nian nuclear program. Associated Press Both of Iran's actions were
"The atmosphere was con- verified by the U.N.'s nu-
structive, and the discus- "I cannot say that we re- nese delegation, said that maining parties to the deal clear watchdog, the In-
sions were good," Iranian solved everything" but all while there were "some to offset the sanctions U.S. ternational Atomic Energy
Deputy Foreign Minister the parties are still "deter- tense moments" during the President Donald Trump re- Agency.
Seyed Abbas Araghchi told mined to save this deal," he meeting, "on the whole instated after pulling out. At the Sunday meeting,
reporters after the meeting added. the atmosphere was very The country recently sur- Fu said, the Europeans
ended. Fu Cong, the head of Chi- good. passed the uranium stock- urged Iran to come back
Friendly. And it was very pile and enrichment limits to full compliance and Iran
professional." set out in the agreement, urged the European Union,
Both diplomats said there saying the action could be France, Britain and Germa-
was a general agreement reversed if the other parties ny to implement their part
to organize a higher-level came up with economic of the deal.
meeting of foreign ministers incentives. Fu said all sides expressed
soon, but also that prepa- Experts warn that higher strong opposition against
rations for such a summit enrichment level and a the unilateral imposition of
needed to be done well. A growing uranium stockpile sanctions by the U.S., espe-
date has not been set. narrow the one-year win- cially the extraterritorial ap-
Iran is pressuring the re- dow that Iran would need plication of the sanctions.q

Lawyer: Romania suspect admits killing

2 teenagers

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) resigned Friday after alle- to life," Iohannis said. "Those
— The lawyer for a man de- gations that officers were responsible will have to
tained by police in Roma- too slow in responding to face harsh punishment.
nia said Sunday that his cli- Macesanu's phone calls to Sentences, however harsh,
ent has admitted killing two a national emergency ho- do not bring back lost lives.
female teenagers. tline saying she had been We must identify means
Lawyer Bogdan Alexan- abducted and raped by to prevent such tragedies
dru told Romanian media a man who picked her up from ever being repeated."
that Gheorghe Dinca said while she was hitchhiking. Over 100 people attend-
he had killed 15-year-old President Klaus Iohannis ed a rally Sunday night in
Alexandra Macesanu and made a televised state- Bucharest, the Romanian
18-year-old Luiza Melencu ment Sunday night discuss- capital, in memory of the
and burned their bodies. ing the missteps in police teen victims. It was orga-
Macesanu was abducted work. nized by women's rights
Thursday, while Melencu "Romanian institutions groups and organizations
went missing in April. failed in their duty to pro- combatting domestic
Romania's police chief tect the fundamental right violence.q