{"id":43855,"date":"2020-09-21T18:23:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43855"},"modified":"2020-09-21T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:23:13","slug":"lebanon-finds-four-bodies-after-deadly-sea-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43855","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon finds four bodies after deadly sea crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"59\">\n<p>\nBERLIN: The head of Iran\u2019s nuclear agency said Monday that the landmark 2015 deal between Tehran and world powers on his country\u2019s atomic program is struggling since the unilateral US withdrawal, but is still worth preserving.<br \/>Ali Akbar Salehi told delegates at a conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna that the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, has been \u201ccaught in a quasi-stalemate situation\u201d since President Donald Trump pulled the US out in 2018.<br \/>The deal promises Iran economic incentives in exchange for limits on its nuclear program. The remaining world powers in the deal \u2013 France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia \u2013 have been struggling to offset re-imposed American sanctions.<br \/>Iran has been steadily breaking restrictions outlined in the deal on the amount of uranium it can enrich, the purity it can enrich it to, and other limitations in order to pressure those countries to do more.<br \/>Salehi, speaking in a video address, said it\u2019s of the \u201cutmost importance\u201d that those countries find a solution to resolve \u201cthe difficulties caused by the illegal withdrawal of the US from the deal.\u201d<br \/>\u201cThere is still a broad agreement among the international community that the JCPOA should be preserved,\u201d he said.<br \/>Speaking after Salehi, US Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette made no reference to the deal, saying only that the \u201cUnited States remains committed to addressing the threats posed by the nuclear programs of both North Korea and Iran.\u201d<br \/>\u201cOn top of its horrific record as the world\u2019s largest state sponsor of terrorism, Iran has a lamentable history of providing only grudging, dilatory, and incomplete cooperation, if at all, with the IAEA. Iran must do more, much more, to ensure both timely and complete compliance with the safeguards obligations,\u201d he said.<br \/>The ultimate goal of the JCPOA is to prevent Iran from being able to build a nuclear bomb \u2014 something Iran insists it does not want to do.<br \/>Though it has broken the pact\u2019s limitations, it still has far less enriched uranium and lower-purity uranium than it had before signing the deal.<br \/>It has also continued to allow IAEA inspectors full access to its nuclear facilities, which the world powers still in the deal maintain is reason enough to try and keep it in place.<br \/>Iran recently granted the IAEA access to two sites dating from before the deal, which Director General Rafael Grossi said he hoped \u201cwill reinforce cooperation and enhance mutual trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN: The head of Iran\u2019s nuclear agency said Monday that the landmark 2015 deal between Tehran and world powers on his country\u2019s atomic program is struggling since the unilateral US withdrawal, but is still worth preserving.Ali Akbar Salehi told delegates at a conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna that the so-called Joint&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}