Iran will announce on Saturday details of its new measures to reduce its obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal in response to tougher US sanctions, prompting the European Union to demand yesterday that it abandon this step and refrain from any further steps that undermine the nuclear deal. .
A spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Agency, Behrooz Kamalundi, will hold a press conference to detail the third step of Iran's reduction of its nuclear obligations since May, the ISNA news agency reported.
Kamalundi will reveal how the order issued yesterday by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to abandon any restrictions on nuclear research and development.
Rowhani has thus launched the third phase of the plan to reduce Tehran's nuclear obligations as stipulated in the international agreement on its nuclear program signed in July 2015 in Vienna.
Rouhani spoke of "expanding research and development, various types of centrifuges, and all that uranium enrichment needs."
"We consider these activities to be incompatible (with the nuclear deal) and in this context we urge Iran to reverse these steps and refrain from any further steps that undermine the nuclear deal," said EU foreign ministry spokesman Carlos Martin Ruiz de Gordijuela.
France also called on Iran to comply with all provisions of the nuclear agreement and not to violate it, a statement issued by the French Foreign Ministry said that Paris has made great efforts to calm tensions, noting that there should be no new violation of the nuclear agreement and the return to full compliance with the agreement, they are key objectives of this process.
The French Foreign Ministry statement stressed the necessity and importance of the lack of action from Tehran to send bad signals, as this may «harm the efforts to stop the escalation».
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday: "This is not the time for talks with Iran.
Netanyahu made the remarks before heading to London to meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
Netanyahu added that Iran's continued violations of the agreement, as well as its "aggressive actions" against international shipping and attempts to launch "deadly attacks" in Israel, are the motive for further sanctions.
Later, Netanyahu said at the start of his meeting with Johnson in London yesterday that "we have security challenges with Iran," and welcomed Johnson's pro-Israel stance and anti-Semitism, while Johnson replied "I want to talk to you about a two-state solution" to the conflict. Israeli - Palestinian.
Netanyahu also touched upon Rouhani's declaration, the plan to reduce Iran's commitments to the nuclear deal, saying: "Rouhani's declaration to continue to violate the nuclear agreement and start developing centrifuges, in addition to Tehran's deadly aggressive and offensive activities."
The British Prime Minister's Office said yesterday that Netanyahu and Johnson agreed during their meeting in London on the need to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
President Donald Trump's government is imposing sanctions on Iran to force it to negotiate a new deal that is more binding on Iran.
Three European countries - France, Germany and Britain - are in talks to try to salvage the nuclear deal reached in Vienna in 2015 and are threatened after the United States withdrew in May 2018 and reimposed a series of economic sanctions on Iran.
The effort is led by French President Emmanuel Macron, who is trying to persuade the United States to exempt Iran from some sanctions.
The European plan, which has been discussed in recent days, gives Tehran a $ 15 billion line of credit in return for full implementation of the deal, but it still clashes with US rejection.
A French diplomatic source said that this amount is equivalent to one-third of Iran's hydrocarbon exports for 2017, and the amounts obtained by Tehran will be paid through the credit line during the negotiation through future sales of Iranian oil.
But the plan cannot come to light if Washington does not back down from some of its sanctions aimed at selling Iranian oil, which the United States vehemently rejected yesterday.
The former French ambassador to Iran, Francois Niccolo, said the new Iranian measures "will primarily involve the development of new centrifuges" to enrich uranium.
He explained that the Vienna agreement "significantly limits the development of different models of the new generation of centrifuges", and limits the "number of centrifuges collected and tested", and imposes a "strict timetable related to development."
Niccolo said that what Iran had declared "very deliberate" and "the first tangible effects will not emerge in a year or two," but unlike the first measures taken in terms of reducing commitments, "the new measures can only be undone in part."
"In fact, even if research is stalled, scientific gains always remain."
Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Russia would protect its ships in the Strait of Hormuz by military means, while Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his country had made security arrangements for its transit through the Strait of Hormuz, which has seen a series of attacks on international tankers in months. The last few.
Moody made the remarks at an economic forum in Russia's Far East, where Putin also said he was interested in defusing tensions in the strategic corridor.
Putin and Moody announced yesterday in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, partnership agreements in the nuclear energy, defense and hydrocarbons sectors, a new impetus to economic cooperation between their countries.
Putin and Moody held a private meeting first and then in the presence of their delegations at the East Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia's big business meeting for the fifth consecutive year to try to develop Russia's Far East.
- Netanyahu and Johnson agreed during their meeting
In London the need to prevent Iran from owning
Nuclear weapon.