{"id":9044,"date":"2025-10-19T08:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/iran-says-no-longer-bound-by-nuclear-pact-restrictions-as-deal-expires\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:37:57","slug":"iran-says-no-longer-bound-by-nuclear-pact-restrictions-as-deal-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/iran-says-no-longer-bound-by-nuclear-pact-restrictions-as-deal-expires\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says no longer bound by nuclear pact restrictions as deal expires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-images norender-embeds ui-sortable\">\n<figure contenteditable=\"false\"><figcaption contenteditable=\"true\" class>A general view of the Bushehr main nuclear reactor, 1,200 km (746 miles) south of Tehran, August 21, 2010.&mdash; Reuters&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Iran said on Saturday that it was not bound to follow the restrictions of the Vienna Pact 2015 from now, which stopped its nuclear programme for a decade, as the accord expired today.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 deal &mdash; signed in Vienna by Iran, China, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and the United States &mdash; saw the lifting of international sanctions against Iran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>But the pact had already been in tatters after Washington unilaterally withdrew during President Donald Trump&rsquo;s first term, with Iran later pulling back from its commitments.<\/p>\n<p>The reimposition last month of UN sanctions at the urging of three of the deal&rsquo;s European signatories rendered the accord effectively moot.<\/p>\n<p>From now on, &ldquo;all of the provisions (of the deal), including the restrictions on the Iranian nuclear programme and the related mechanisms are considered terminated,&rdquo; Iran&rsquo;s foreign ministry said in a statement on the day of the pact&rsquo;s expiration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Iran firmly expresses its commitment to diplomacy,&rdquo; it added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Western powers have long accused Iran of secretly seeking nuclear weapons &mdash; something it has repeatedly denied, insisting its nuclear programme is solely for civilian purposes such as energy production.<\/p>\n<p>The deal&rsquo;s &ldquo;termination day&rdquo; was set for October 18, 2025, exactly 10 years after it was enshrined in the UN&rsquo;s Security Council resolution 2231.<\/p>\n<p>The accord capped Iran&rsquo;s uranium enrichment at 3.67 percent in exchange for sanctions relief and provided for strict supervision of its nuclear activities by the UN&rsquo;s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).<\/p>\n<p>But Washington left the deal in 2018 and reinstated sanctions, after which Tehran began stepping up its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IAEA, Iran is the only country without a nuclear weapons programme to enrich uranium to 60%. That is close to the threshold of 90% required for a bomb, and well above the level needed for civilian nuclear use.<\/p>\n<h3>&lsquo;Irresponsible actions&rsquo;<\/h3>\n<p>In July, Iran suspended cooperation with the IAEA following the war with Israel, with Tehran pointing to the agency&rsquo;s failure to condemn Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The unprecedented bombing campaign by Israel and the retaliation by Iran during the 12-day war derailed ongoing nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>At the initiative of France, Britain and Germany, widespread UN sanctions against Iran returned into force in late September for the first time in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a letter addressed to the United Nations on Saturday that the expiration of the 2015 deal renders the sanctions &ldquo;null and void.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Britain, France and Germany accuse Iran of not cooperating with the IAEA and would like it to return to negotiations with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Iran&rsquo;s efforts to revive the exchanges (with the IAEA) that led to the agreement in Cairo were also sabotaged by the irresponsible actions of the three European countries,&rdquo; the Iranian foreign ministry said in Saturday&rsquo;s statement, referring to a recent framework to resume cooperation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Iran says no longer bound by nuclear pact restrictions as deal expires<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A general view of the Bushehr main nuclear reactor, 1,200 km (746 miles) south of Tehran, August 21, 2010.&mdash; Reuters&nbsp; Iran said on Saturday that it was not bound to follow the restrictions of the Vienna Pact 2015 from now, which stopped its nuclear programme for a decade, as the accord expired today. The 2015&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/iran-says-no-longer-bound-by-nuclear-pact-restrictions-as-deal-expires\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Iran says no longer bound by nuclear pact restrictions as deal expires&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}