The signatory countries of the nuclear agreement with Iran confirm their desire to save it, despite pressure from the US.

Vienna: Countries that signed the 2015 deal on Iran’s nuclear program at the conclusion of their meeting in Vienna on Tuesday reiterated their desire to save it, while China condemned US efforts to re-impose sanctions and extend the arms embargo against Tehran.
And the diplomat Helga Schmid, representative of the European Union, wrote as she left the meeting she chaired and concluded in the afternoon that Iran, China and the Europeans are “united in their determination to preserve the nuclear agreement despite the current difficulties” .
And the agreement signed in 2015 between Iran and the major powers lifted part of the international sanctions on Iran in exchange for guarantees that demonstrate the peaceful nature of its nuclear program and limit some of its nuclear activities.
In 2018, the United States withdrew and reimposed unilateral sanctions. In response, Tehran has restarted uranium production, which has now exceeded the limit eight times, according to the latest IAEA report released in June.
On August 21, Washington officially tried at the United Nations to activate a controversial mechanism to demand the reimposition of international sanctions on Iran within a month, but was immediately met with rejection by its European allies.
The tone spread unusually between the two sides of the Atlantic, as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused France, Britain and Germany of “choosing to align” Iran.
“We remain attached” to the agreement, Chinese diplomat Fu Kung told reporters in Vienna on Tuesday as he left the hotel where the meeting was held.
He added: “We are doing everything possible, hand in hand with the entire international community to thwart the US attempt to torpedo it.” The United States flouted international law and this should not be permissible. “

– The coherence of the situation –

In this tense context, the coherence of the situation between Iranians, Europeans, Russians and Chinese was affected by the lack of cooperation between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN body in charge of monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities.
For months, the latter requested permission to enter two alleged nuclear sites in Iran to inspect them, but Iran rejected the order, making the position of the Europeans increasingly difficult to confront their American allies.
But on Wednesday, Iran finally gave the agency the green light to access the two sites. Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies said that Tehran had thus positioned itself “in harmony with the rest of the world, while the United States appears isolated.”
And IAEA inspectors should be able to quickly sample the site. An AFP diplomat said it takes “three months to get the results of the samples.” He added that “the issue may create a problem with the Iranians.”

Tehran commits

The Bloomberg Finance Agency reported that Iran also recently transferred centrifuges used to enrich uranium to a new room at the Natanz nuclear facility, which was sabotaged in July.
Fitzpatrick said that “Iran’s nuclear activities remain a major source of concern for nonproliferation countries.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency, which regularly informs its member states about Iran’s nuclear activities, is expected to release a new report in September.
The Vienna meeting was attended by representatives of the foreign ministries of the six countries concerned.
(AFP)