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AFP
Vienna
Iran and Russia on Wednesday poured scorn on America’s call for Tehran to adhere to limits in a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers at a special meeting of the UN’s nuclear watchdog.
The meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was requested by the US after it was confirmed last week that Iran had exceeded the stockpile of enriched uranium permitted under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The US Ambassador to International Organizations in Vienna Jackie Wolcott told the meeting that Iran was engaged in “nuclear extortion”.
Her Iranian counterpart Kazem Gharib Abadi said it was a “sad irony that this meeting is convened with the request of the US”.
Gharib Abadi said the current impasse was the result of the US’s “outlaw behaviour” and condemned what he called the “sadistic tendency” of the US to impose sanctions on Iran.
Russia’s Ambassador to the IAEA Mikhail Ulyanov tweeted after the meeting that the US “was practically isolated on this issue”.
Vienna
Iran and Russia on Wednesday poured scorn on America’s call for Tehran to adhere to limits in a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers at a special meeting of the UN’s nuclear watchdog.
The meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was requested by the US after it was confirmed last week that Iran had exceeded the stockpile of enriched uranium permitted under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The US Ambassador to International Organizations in Vienna Jackie Wolcott told the meeting that Iran was engaged in “nuclear extortion”.
Her Iranian counterpart Kazem Gharib Abadi said it was a “sad irony that this meeting is convened with the request of the US”.
Gharib Abadi said the current impasse was the result of the US’s “outlaw behaviour” and condemned what he called the “sadistic tendency” of the US to impose sanctions on Iran.
Russia’s Ambassador to the IAEA Mikhail Ulyanov tweeted after the meeting that the US “was practically isolated on this issue”.
