US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has admitted that Tehran is in “technical compliance” with the 2015 nuclear agreement reached between Iran and six other countries, including the United States.
Tillerson made the remarks on Wednesday after he and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met as parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) at an EU-organized event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York where EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that all parties to the nuclear deal agree that Iran is in compliance with the plan.
Tillerson told reporters after the meeting that the United States did not dispute that Iran was in “technical compliance” with the JCPOA, saying that Mogherini’s comments referred only to technical compliance with the nuclear deal.
He said that the US complaints about Iran are political in nature, without elaborating what he means with these comments.
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