The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to release a final report in the Austrian capital of Vienna, which will confirm that Iran has stuck to its end of the bargain in regard to honoring the nuclear deal, which was struck between Tehran and six world powers previous year.
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US President Barack Obama has lifted a decades-old ban on the export of civilian passenger aircraft to Iran as Tehran prepares to see sanctions relief.
Companies that pour cement for wells and install pressure-control devices may be tempted to set up complicated internal structures and controls to appease the U.S. Treasury Department’s sanctions enforcers, James West, an analyst at Evercore ISI in NY, said in a phone interview.
“We’re here as Americans to speak with one voice to say stop Iran now, reject this deal”, said George Pataki, the former three-term Republican governor of NY. A senior US administration official told Al-Monitor yesterday that implementation day will be “very, very soon”.
Would this be the end of Iran’s nuclear program?
“This is a particularly important development for the energy sector, in which Iran is hoping to attract $30 billion of foreign investment to help realize its ambitions to increase oil production”, Zaiwall said.
Front-runner Donald Trump said the only reason the United States was able to get those sailors back was because Iran wanted to collect its frozen assets. Together, we can make sure that Iran abides by its commitments under the agreement.
He said the USA trade embargo on Iran remains, so most of the new business flow into Iran will be worldwide. “Iran’s record has been one of war and destruction, terrorism, destabilisation, interference in the affairs of other countries and the concern in most countries in the world is that Iran not use these funds in order to fund destabilisation activities, but instead use the funds to improve the wellbeing of its people”.
Under the nuclear deal with Western powers reached in July, Iran has already completed shipping its supply of enriched uranium to Russian Federation, limited the number of centrifuges at its Fordo nuclear enrichment plant, and submitted to the inspection of its Parchin military testing site.
Specifically, the senators asked the president to describe what actions the Treasury Department is ready to take against individuals and entities involved in Iran’s ballistic missile program, and against foreign banks that are financing it.
“Iran may test the boundaries of the agreement. It is critical that violations do not go unpunished, or the deal could be killed by a thousand paper cuts”, Kelsey Davenport, of the Arms Control Association, said in a statement.
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United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said there could be a meeting in relation to Iran on Saturday in Vienna, where the July 14 deal was reached, but did not elaborate.
