Iran set to begin suspending more nuclear commitments on July 7: Security chief
Tehran (KNA) - Iran’s top security official says the country is to begin suspending more of its commitments under a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal early next month, when a deadline set by Tehran for the other signatories to fulfill their side of the accord expires.
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said Tuesday that Tehran will "decisively" start the "second phase" of freezing its obligations from July 7.
The agreement was reached between the P5+1 group of states - the United States, the UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany - and Iran in July 2015. Washington, however, left the deal last May and reinstated the anti-Iran sanctions that it had lifted under the document.
Bowing to Washington's pressure, Europe has been throwing only verbal support behind the agreement ever since, refusing to guarantee the Islamic Republic's business interests in the face of American bans despite being contractually obliged to do so.
On May 8, Iran notified its remaining partners in the deal that it would suspend the implementation of some of its commitments as a means of prompting the European side to honor its end of the bargain.
Source: PressTV