Iran Hints at Rift With Atomic Agency if U.S. Quits Nuclear Deal
le results in line with Iran’s interests, the country will walk out." Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram Qassemi, said at a weekly news conference in Tehran on Monday
that if the Trump administration restored the sanctions, "all options for any situation are on the table for Iran," according to an account by the semiofficial Tasnim News Agency. that fails to produce any tangib
8, 2018
Iran’s top nuclear official said Monday that his country might rethink its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy
Agency if President Trump scrapped American participation in the 2015 agreement limiting Iranian nuclear activities.
in its decision about the J.C.P.O.A." American analysts who have followed the nuclear agreement’s path said Iran’s escalating warnings to the United States were partly aimed at the other parties to the agreement — Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia — in the hope
that they would convince Mr. Trump that an American pullout could cause enormous harm. that the U.S. administration would definitely regret making any blatant mistake
Iranian said that Salehi said that in case the U.S. fails to honor its commitments under the Iran nuclear deal, Iran will adopt measures
that can affect the current trend of Iran’s cooperation with the agency,
The warning, from Ali Akbar Salehi, president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, went beyond generic threats of unspecified
Iranian reprisals if Mr. Trump reneges on the accord, reached with Iran and six world powers, including the United States.
The country’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said in a brief report
that Mr. Salehi had made the threat of rethinking compliance in a telephone call with Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is based in Vienna.