They include how much enriched uranium it has to work with, and restrictions on Iran’s stockpile extend until the end of the deal, crimping its full enrichment program.
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United Nations political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman briefed the 15-member Security Council on Monday on Ban’s first bi-annual report on the implementation of the remaining sanctions and restrictions on Iran.
Iran says it is involved in no such missile activity and has no such warheads.
A document obtained by The Associated Press shows that key restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program will ease in slightly more than a decade, halving the time Tehran would need to build a bomb.
His comments followed revelations a day earlier of the confidential document -an add-on agreement to the nuclear deal with world powers- that Iran has given the IAEA. From year 11 to 13, says the document, Iran will install centrifuges up to five times as efficient as the 5,060 machines it is now restricted to using.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, reached on July 14, 2015, lifts economic sanctions in exchange for Iran curbing its nuclear program.
“The United States disagrees strongly with elements of this report, including that its content goes beyond the appropriate scope”. Russia’s Ambassador Vitaly Churkin called the report “politically motivated” and said the criticism targeting Iran wasn’t based on facts.
A senior Israeli official said in response to the reports that Israel’s greatest concern about the nuclear deal with Iran was and remains that after 10 years “it will leave Iran with an industrial uranium enrichment capacity that would enable the regime to produce the fuel for many nuclear bombs in a very short time”.
“Some of the provisions of the Secretary-General’s report have no relation to his mandate, nor to the terms of reference of [the U.N.] resolution or the [nuclear deal]”, Churkin said. “(Iran’s) nuclear program for 15 years”, Moniz said.
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Iran also denied the allegations that it sent weapons to Iraq and Yemen, but maintained that testing long-range missiles were a matter of national security and wouldn’t be curbed. “The deal has been finalized, the money has already been transferred to the accounts of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization”, he said.
