China: US pressure root cause of Iran nuclear reaction
Tehran (KNA) - China says it considers US President Donald Trump’s trademark policy of “maximum pressure” to be the underlying reason for Iran’s retaliatory decision to reduce more of its commitments under a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal, which Washington abandoned last year.
"We have emphasized on many previous occasions that the US's maximum pressure is the root cause of the current fraught tensions," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular press briefing in Beijing on Tuesday, AFP reported.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday announced that Tehran has exceeded the 300-kilogram limit on its low-enriched uranium production in line with paragraphs 26 and 36 of the nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
It came as part of Tehran's countermeasures in response to Washington's departure from the deal last May as well as the failure of the remaining signatories - France, Germany, the UK, Russia and China - to meet their obligations under the agreement.
Source: PressTV