Less than 24 hours after the deal was implemented, Washington placed sanctions on eleven companies and individuals for supplying Iran’s ballistic missile programme.
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“Iran will respond to such (U.S.) acts of propaganda and harassment by seriously continuing its missile program and enhancing its defensive capabilities and national security”, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said at his weekly press briefing.
The Treasury Department sanctioned 11 individuals and companies working to advance Iran’s ballistic missile program.
Rezaian and two of the others freed flew to a USA base in Germany via Geneva for medical evaluation. They were Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter who was captured in July 2014 and convicted of espionage past year; Amir Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine captured in 2011 and sentenced to death for espionage in 201; Saeed Abedini, a Christian pastor held by Iran since 2012; and Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, whom the administration only identified as a hostage this weekend.
In addition, the United States and Iran have also resolved a financial dispute that dated back more than three decades.
Under Obama’s rule, the USA will settle a legal lawsuit with Iran that has always been pending at the Hague Tribunal since the Islamic revolution.
Washington:Hailing the implementation of the landmark Iranian nuclear deal as a “milestone”, US President Barack Obama today said every single path that Iran could have taken to build a nuclear bomb has been cut off.
A day after President Obama signed executive actions to lift economic sanctions against Iran, the impact of that deal was reverberating through the local Iranian American community – the largest Iranian diaspora community in the world.
To settle the Iranian claim, which had been hanging in the Hague Tribunal since 1981, the U.S.is returning the money in the fund along with “a roughly $1.3 billion compromise on the interest”, the U.S. State Department statement said.
Amano was also to meet Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s atomic organisation, to discuss monitoring and verifying Tehran’s commitments under the agreement, which allows for greater IAEA inspections.
Aside from this, the U.S.is unfreezing Iranian assets, estimated at between $100-$150 billion, as part of the nuclear deal.
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Rouhani wrote to Khamenei on Monday to provide an update after the United Nations atomic watchdog declared that Iran had met conditions stipulated in the nuclear deal.
