DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Guardian Council control body on Wednesday passed a law requiring the government to suspend UN inspections of its nuclear sites and accentuate uranium enrichment beyond the limit set out in the 2015 Tehran nuclear deal if sanctions are eased in two months.
In retaliation for the assassination last week of Iran’s most sensible nuclear scientist, who Tehran blamed Israel, the extremist-dominated Iranian parliament on Tuesday approved the bill through a large majority that will determine Iran’s nuclear position.
The Guardian Council is guilty of ensuring that expenditure is at odds with Shia Islamic law or the Iranian constitution; however, the position of the ideal leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is known, who has the final say in all state affairs.
“Today, in a letter, the speaker of parliament officially asked the president to put the new law into effect,” reported Iran’s semi-official news firm Fars.
Under the new law, Tehran would give European parties two months of the agreement to alleviate the sanctions against Iran’s monetary and oil sectors, imposed after Washington defected from the pact between Tehran and six powers in 2018.
In reaction to US President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” policy on Tehran, Iran has reduced its compliance with the agreement.
The law driven by extremist lawmakers would make it difficult for U. S. President-elect Joe Biden, who will take up the job on January 20, to sign up for the deal.
Biden said he would return to the pact and lift sanctions if Tehran supported the “strict compliance with the nuclear agreement. “
“There is now more pressure on (President Hassan) Rohani to get the United States back to JCPOA (the joint comprehensive action plan) quickly,” tweeted Ariane Tabatabai, Middle East researcher at the German Marshall Fund and Columbia University.
Rohani, the Iranian architect of the 2015 agreement, criticized Parliament as “damaging to diplomatic efforts” to ease US sanctions.
Under the new law, uranium enrichment is expected to resume at 20% and install complex centrifuges at its Natanz and Fordow nuclear facilities.
The agreement limits the fissible purity to which Iran can refine uranium to 3. 67%, well below the 20% received before the agreement and below the army’s quality point of 90%. Iran surpassed the ceiling by 3. 67% in July 2019 and the enrichment point. has remained solid by 4. 5% since then.
Britain, France and Germany, all sides of the 2015 agreement, suggested that Iran respect it completely.
(Written through Parisa Hafezi; edited through Tothrough Chopra and Alistair Bell)
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