Iran denies talks with European Union over missile program

The IAEA has reported 11 times that Iran has been committed to the nuclear deal.

Iranian leaders have said they will uphold their side of the deal, which involves strict curbs on their nuclear program, if the other signatories uphold theirs by making sure that Iran can keep doing business with the world, despite the revived US sanctions. “The Europeans need to table a resolution against the U.S.to protest this action”.

Nations that remain in the Iran nuclear deal met yesterday for the first time since US President Donald Trump left the pact, but diplomats see limited scope to salvage it after Washington vowed to be tougher than ever on Teheran.

“We have not decided yet to stay in the deal”, said the Iranian official, who briefed a small group of reporters under ground rules of anonymity.

Under pressure from President Obama, European countries adopted his approach to Iran, erasing its record as a terror state and human rights violator and as a threat to the surrounding countries.

The 2015 Iran nuclear deal is now hanging in the balance after Tehran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei issued his demands to European Union powers, which are likely to be rejected by the UK, France and Germany.

Iran is still implementing the 2015 accord over its nuclear programme, just weeks after Washington ditched the accord, according to a report by the UN’s nuclear watchdog.

He said European banks “must guarantee business transactions with the Islamic Republic”. Since Donald Trump became President, he continually agape the Iran nuclear agreement as an “embarrassment” and the “worst deal ever” which could only make things hard to reciprocate.

In the new strategy outlined by Secretary of State Pompeo, the US returns to a moral stance in its Middle East policy and strives to bring the European countries into it – but at this stage the latter are refusing to go along with it.

However, China and Russian Federation will gain more from the pullout of the Americans from the multilateral nuclear deal as this will give both Moscow and Beijing diplomatic leverage over Washington’s as both capitals would present themselves as the credible mediator to fill the vacuum of the USA in the Middle East. Iran’s senior nuclear negotiator, Abbas Araqchi, urged the European signatories to keep the deal beneficial for Iran.

“If not we would go for a ministerial (meeting) and after that if Iran is still not satisfied we would take the decision”.

He further pointed to recent negotiations between the Iranian and European delegations to save the JCPOA following the U.S. withdrawal from the deal and said that it can not be said whether the results of the talks have been good or bad.

President Donald Trump pulled the USA out of the deal May 8, opening the door for American sanctions against Iran to snap back.

While European nations share those concerns, they have said that as long as Tehran meets its commitments, they would remain in the deal.

Yukia Amano, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also joined the meeting at the request of Joint Commission of JCPOA.