Iran in compliance with nuclear deal, despite US claims: Analyst

Iran is in compliance with the international nuclear deal reached in 2015, despite false claims by some current and former US officials that Tehran is violating the deal, says Stephen Lendman, a journalist and political analyst based in Chicago.

The administration US President Donald Trump is giving “strong indications” that it is preparing a case to decertify Iran’s compliance with the international nuclear agreement, experts say.

“Iran is in compliance with the deal; the IAEA has certified it numerous times,” Lendman said during an interview with Press TV on Tuesday.

Trump is “rigging the data” in order to declare that Iran is in violation of the nuclear deal, Lendman said.

The White House is bound by US law to notify Congress of Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal every 90 days. Congress would then have to continue to withhold certain nuclear sanctions against Iran.

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