The spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry has warned on Monday that his country will take “stronger step” in reducing nuclear deal commitments if the European parties don’t act properly to save the deal.
Speaking to the state-run TV network of IRIB on Monday, Abbas Mousavi warned the European signatories of 2015 nuclear deal – formally known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – that if they fail to carry out their [economic] obligations under the deal, Iran is ready to take its “third step more firmly” to breach the nuclear deal.
“The third step, which is more uncompromising than the first and second ones, has been planned and ready to be executed, in order to maintain the balance between Iran's rights and commitments to the JCPOA,” he added.
Mousavi also said, “If European countries accept our proposals to save the nuclear deal and execute their [economic] obligations, Iran will not take its third step, otherwise we reduce our commitments even further.”
In the first step, Iran increased its enriched uranium stockpile limit to beyond 300 kilograms set by the JCPOA. In the second step, it announced that it had begun enriching uranium to a higher purity rate of 3.67 percent.
