Iran says it has transferred 11 tons of heavy water to Oman

Going forward, much of the tension over the nuclear deal will fall at the feet of President-elect Donald Trump, who often trashed it on the campaign trail.

Iran is threatening to retaliate against sanctions legislation that was overwhelmingly passed by the House of Representatives last week, shortly after the Institute for Science and International Security reported that Iran may be in violation of elements of last year’s nuclear agreement. The ISA has been in place since 1996 and has badly hurt the Iranian economy, but the U.S. government believes it is necessary to maintain it to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, which it fears will destabilize the region. The Houthis have recently attacked a U.S. Naval ship. It would lend weight to the Obama administration’s contention that the deal it secured with Iran was the best to be had.

Trump could easily withdraw the United States from the agreement when he takes office, as the Hill explains. “He could just say ‘we’re pulling out”.

Iran had 130.1 tonnes of the material, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a confidential report seen by Reuters.

“The president is not the dictator of the world”, Shearer said. The president, however, has authority to grant waivers to other companies, such as Airbus, to avoid USA sanctions for doing business with Iran. The United Nations Security Council resolution that approved it does not require its members to accept it. But, like many other promises made during the campaign, Trump will probably modify his promise on Iran’s nuclear deal.

The question is, how should the incoming Administration treat the nuclear deal, called “disastrous” by Mr. Trump?

“The system worked in the sense that we found it and they’re addressing it”, asserted Kirby, who stressed that catching Iran breaking its agreement is testimony that the deal is actually working.

Washington believed that the law will violate the nuclear pact.

Nevertheless, Ravanchi said the agreement could still be in danger.

The agreement, which officially took effect in January, has released hundreds of millions of dollars in impounded Iranian funds and spurred a rush of European business interest in Iran trade and investment deals, generating momentum that would be hard to reverse.

The moves have already met with opposition on Capitol Hill with the Republican leadership in the House sending a letter Tuesday to Obama asking his administration to cease efforts to facilitate companies doing business with Iran during the transition period. “The whole reason we went into these negotiations was because the other choices which were mainly military and war were worse”, Shearer said. Those endorsing the statement included Lawrence J. Korb, a former assistant defense secretary under President Ronald Reagan; Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Chas W. Freeman Jr., a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

We want to hear from you. As such, the Obama administration did not find any issue with Iran’s heavy water production.

“Even if the agreement is eventually ripped up, Iran might still stand to gain”.

The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a conservative think tank in Washington, was an early supporter of the “stop the Iran nuclear deal” campaign and pressed members of Congress past year to block it.

“That’s been a success”, he said. A portrait of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini hangs on the wall.

Russian Federation and Iran have also negotiated an arms deal worth $10 billion. We are still sanctioning them.