Iran is sticking to the terms of its nuclear deal with world powers, a UN atomic watchdog report showed Thursday, despite ongoing uncertainty over its future.
The report from the International Atomic Energy Agency showed that Iran was still complying with the key parameters of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), agreed in 2015 by Iran and the US, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany.
It comes despite the future of the deal being thrown into doubt after US President Donald Trump withdrew from the pact in May and re-imposed US
sanctions.
The latest report says the IAEA had had access “to all the sites and locations in Iran which it needed to visit.”
The agency repeated language in its previous report emphasizing the importance of “timely and proactive cooperation in providing such access” on Iran’s part.
A senior diplomat with knowledge of the issue said that the language was a way “to send a message to Iran to prevent potential problems” rather than being caused by any particular behavior on the part of the Iranians.