Iran nuclear deal
Pompeo warns of sanctions for any arms sales to Iran
The embargo on the sale of conventional arms to Iran was due to begin expiring progressively from 18 October under terms of the UN resolution that confirmed the...
As other signatories cast doubt on the move having any legal effect, Washington threatened to 'impose consequences' on states failing to comply.
Tehran dragged Washington to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague in 2018 after Trump pulled the US out of a landmark international nuclear deal with Iran.
Diplomats say the resolution will call on Iran to provide access to two locations where past nuclear activity may have occurred - sites to which the IAEA has been trying to gain access for months.
Grossi said the IAEA had raised questions "related to possible undeclared nuclear material and nuclear-related activities at three locations that have not been declared by Iran".
In his first Friday prayers sermon in eight years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also told worshippers chanting 'Death to America' that the elite Guards could take their fight beyond Iran’s borders after the US killing of a top Iranian commander.
The European powers said they had taken the step to avoid a crisis over nuclear proliferation being added to an escalating confrontation in the Middle East.
The Iran nuclear deal is agreed on 14 July 2015, in Vienna between Tehran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) plus Germany.
President Hassan Rouhani's remarks came as his government faced criticism over the visit of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to the French seaside resort of Biarritz on Sunday for meetings on the sidelines of the G7 summit.
Iraq, which maintains good relations with both Washington and Tehran, cautioned on Monday that the deployment of Western forces was fueling regional tension.
Iran has repeatedly said it will reduce its commitment to the nuclear accord in stages and may even withdraw from the pact altogether unless the remaining signatories find ways to shield its economy from US sanctions.
Parties to the agreement met Iranian officials for talks called in response to an escalation in tensions between Iran and the West that included confrontations at sea and Tehran’s breaches of the nuclear accord.
Confrontations between Washington and Tehran have escalated, culminating in an aborted plan for US air strikes on Iran last month after Tehran downed a US drone. Trump called off the retaliatory US air strike at the last minute.
Washington used the session of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors to accuse Iran of extortion after it inched past the deal’s limit on enrichment levels over the past week, while still offering to hold talks with Tehran.
'The facts show that unilateral bullying has already become a worsening tumour,' said Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang at a press briefing in Beijing.
The Islamic republic also threatened to abandon more commitments unless a solution is found with the remaining parties to the landmark 2015 agreement after Washington unilaterally pulled out.
Senior Iranian officials said Tehran would keep reducing its commitments every 60 days, unless signatories of the pact moved to protect it from US sanctions.
Iran announced it has stockpiled more low-enriched uranium than is permitted under the accord, a move that prompted Donald Trump to warn Iran was 'playing with fire'.
The latest tensions coincide with a buildup of US forces in the Gulf and a series of incidents including Iran's shooting down of a US drone it claimed had entered its airspace.