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He added: “I asked France to fulfill its obligations under the agreement and to desist from complying with the illegal sanctions imposed by the United States.”
Paris urged Tehran to take a constructive stance and stop violating its obligations contained in the nuclear deal during upcoming talks in Vienna on the agreement signed in 2015. The French Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that Minister Jean- Yves Le Drian welcomed during a call with his Iranian counterpart, “the new round of talks to be held on Tuesday. In Vienna on the Iranian nuclear dossier, and encouraged Iran to take a constructive stance during the upcoming talks.” .
Le Drian continued: “I asked Iran to take a constructive stance in the upcoming consultations, which should help in the coming weeks to determine the steps to take to return to full implementation of the nuclear deal.”
He noted that all the states party to the nuclear agreement, and the United States, seek to achieve this goal, highlighting that France will participate in the consultations in a pragmatic and serious manner. He said: “With all parties showing their willingness to enter these talks in good faith in order to reach an agreement as soon as possible, I asked Iran to refrain from any further breaches of its current nuclear commitments, which threatens to undermine the dynamics of the conversations. “
In context, a report by the American Wall Street Journal presented estimates of the arrival date of Iran in possession of a nuclear weapon. In recent months, the report said, Iran had failed to comply with several key provisions of the nuclear deal, reducing the time it would take to produce a nuclear weapon.
On February 23, Iran said it would not allow UN inspectors daily access to nuclear facilities and also announced that it would not provide 24-hour security footage of its activities at the site.
The US newspaper added that Iran took in January, one of its biggest steps so far, in violating the terms of the nuclear deal, as it announced that it had started enriching uranium to a purity of 20 percent, exceeding the percentage determined in the agreement. that is supposed to work. Tehran hereby.
The report questioned Iran’s intention to continue enriching uranium in small quantities, and in light of its constant denial of any intention to achieve a nuclear weapon, despite the fact that uranium is used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
Since the Trump administration withdrew from the nuclear deal, Iran has built up a low-enriched uranium reserve of 2,968 kilograms, more than 14 times the amount allowed under the nuclear deal.
Experts disagree on how long Iran has to reach a nuclear weapon. The “Wall Street Journal” quoted Western officials as saying that Iran could need two to three years to produce a nuclear warhead, assuming there is no outside interference to affect the process.
The report referred to the opinion of a security expert, who believes that Iran can detonate a test device in nine months and manufacture a basic nuclear weapon in a year, and after two years it will have installed a nuclear warhead in a ballistic missile. .
The “Wall Street Journal” report said the question no one knows has yet answered is to what extent Iran has mastered the construction and installation of a nuclear warhead on a missile. Israel’s penetration of the Iranian nuclear archive in 2018 showed that Tehran had retained much of its nuclear weapons expertise from its previous weapons program.
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