• 3 minutes e-car sales collapse
  • 6 minutes America Is Exceptional in Its Political Divide
  • 11 minutes Perovskites, a ‘dirt cheap’ alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient
  • 3 hours GREEN NEW DEAL = BLIZZARD OF LIES
  • 6 days If hydrogen is the answer, you're asking the wrong question
  • 10 hours How Far Have We Really Gotten With Alternative Energy
  • 10 days Biden's $2 trillion Plan for Insfrastructure and Jobs

Breaking News:

Oil Prices Gain 2% on Tightening Supply

UN Watchdog: Iran Has Violated The Nuclear Deal

Iran has just breached the 2015 nuclear deal by exceeding the limit for stockpiling enriched uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday, confirming Iranian claims that it had violated the nuclear deal.

“We can confirm that IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano has informed the Board of Governors that the Agency verified on 1 July that Iran’s total enriched uranium stockpile exceeded [the deal’s limit],” a spokesman for the IAEA said in a statement on Monday, as carried by Reuters.

Earlier today, Iranian media quoted Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying that Iran had exceeded the 300-kilogram limit for its stockpile of 3.67-percent enriched uranium because of Europe’s inaction to guarantee Iranian oil sales despite the U.S. sanctions. Iran will continue to lessen compliance with the nuclear deal if “the Europeans fail to meet the country's demands,” Iran’s Fars news agency quoted Zarif as saying.

“As far as I know, Iran has exceeded the 300kg limit according to the timeline and we had also earlier announced this issue and clearly stated which measures we will adopt as our rights based on the nuclear deal,” Zarif said on Monday.  

In May, exactly a year after the United States withdrew from Iran nuclear deal, the Islamic Republic said that it is suspending some of its commitments under the agreement and threatened to resume enriching uranium at a higher level if the remaining signatories to the deal—the EU, Russia, and China—don’t fulfill within 60 days their commitments to Iran, including protecting the Iranian oil trade from U.S. sanctions.

Iran started to announce measures for reduced compliance under the nuclear deal in “counteractions” against the maximum pressure campaign of the United States, which ended all waivers for Iranian oil customers and sent a carrier strike group to the Middle East as a warning to Iran.

Tension in the Middle East between the U.S. and Iran has escalated since early May, after Iran shot down a U.S. drone two weeks ago.

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

ADVERTISEMENT

More Top Reads From Oilprice.com:



Join the discussion | Back to homepage



Leave a comment
  • Mamdouh Salameh on July 01 2019 said:
    When the United States walked away from the Iran nuclear deal a year ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) failed miserably to criticize the United States for violating international law and the authority of the UN Security Council which overwhelmingly approved the nuclear deal. Now the IAEA is telling the world that Iran has violated the nuclear deal.

    As a United Nations Agency, the IAEA should have kept its mouth shut out of fairness and self-respect or should have levelled criticism in equal measures to both the United States and Iran.

    The European Union (EU) rushed to criticize Iran for reducing its compliance with some clauses of the nuclear deal. However, the EU failed to help Iran overcome US sanctions against its oil exports despite its declaration that it will not comply with US sanctions.

    The EU is an economic giant accounting for 22% of the global economy but a geopolitical dwarf afraid to assert itself against US pressure.

    Dr Mamdouh G Salameh
    International Oil Economist
    Visiting Professor of Energy Economics at ESCP Europe Business School, London

Leave a comment

EXXON Mobil -0.35
Open57.81 Trading Vol.6.96M Previous Vol.241.7B
BUY 57.15
Sell 57.00
Oilprice - The No. 1 Source for Oil & Energy News