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As Trump Vows to Tear Up Iran Necular Deal, U.N. Watchdog Reports Iran Repeatedly Overstepping Agreement

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President Elect Donald Trump says the Iran Necular deal is a foreign-policy disaster.

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NEW YORK – Just days after the National Iranian American Council, a Washington group that has advocated improved relations with Iran, urged President-elect Donald J. Trump to reverse his hostility to the nuclear agreement signed with Iran last year.

The U.N. Nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that Iran must stop repeatedly overstepping a limit on its stock of a sensitive material set by its landmark deal with major powers.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is policing the deal, said in a report last week that Iran had slightly exceeded the 130-tonne soft limit on its stock of heavy water for a second time since the deal was put in place in January.

Officials from the six other countries that signed the deal, including the United States, have expressed frustration over the breach and said the limit should be seen as firm.

Iran’s overstepping of the 130-tonne threshold also raises questions about how U.S. President-elect Donald Trump – who has strongly criticized the deal and said he will “police that contract so tough they (the Iranians) don’t have a chance” – would handle any similar case once he takes office.

“It is important that such situations should be avoided in future in order to maintain international confidence in the implementation of the JCPOA,” IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said in the text of a speech to his agency’s Board of Governors, using the acronym for the deal’s full name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Last week’s report said Amano had expressed “concerns” to Iran over its stock of heavy water, a material used as a moderator in reactors like Iran’s unfinished one at Arak, which had its core removed and made unusable under the deal.

The agreement which Trump says is a foreign-policy disaster places restrictions on Iran’s atomic activities – monitored by the IAEA – in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Rather than setting a strict limit on heavy water as it does for enriched uranium, the deal estimates Iran’s needs to be 130 tonnes and says any amount beyond its needs “will be made available for export to the international market”.

“Iran has … made preparations to transfer a quantity of heavy water out of the country,” Amano said, without saying when the transfer would take place. “Once it has been transferred, Iran’s stock of heavy water will be below 130 metric tonnes.”

Critics of the agreement said Iran was an untrustworthy partner and had been granted too many concessions.

The agreement, which officially took effect in January, has released hundreds of millions of dollars in impounded Iranian funds and spurred a rush of European business interest in Iran trade and investment deals

By Francois Murphy | Reuters | New York Times

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