![]() The permitted maximum quantity held of enriched material has also been exceeded. ![]() Since the beginning of July 201 9 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that Iran is again enriching Uranium on a larger scale than would have been permitted under the JCPOA. The gratitude which Teheran owed to the governments in Paris, Berlin, and London for the stand taken against the hardliners in Washington was short lived. Faced with the choice of keeping their lucrative US business or trying to crack the hard nut of business development with the Mullahs’ regime, the Europeans, almost without exception, opted to bow to the Americans’ wishes, and broke off business rela- tions with Iran. Unfortunately, they did the sums without taking into account their countries’ economies, the interests of which they actually wanted to protect. Not only did the European signatories to the JPCOA, the United Kingdom, France, and Germa- ny, declare that they wanted to stick to the agreement, they also displayed remarkable meticu- lousness in circumventing the sanctions pending from Washington, and coming up with crea - tive ideas for developing substitute money transfer procedures with Iran. The continent’s leading media were quick to trumpet, no doubt confident that their governments would follow suit, that the Trump admini stration had yet again pulled its bull-in-a- china-shop act and endangered a cornerstone of global peace, wrung from Teheran through long and delicate negotiations, maliciously and, in the final analysis, not even in the interests of the USA. ![]() When last year the USA pulled out of the Joint Comprehen sive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the agreement reached with I ran in 201 5 about suspending the Iranian nuclear programme – there was a great deal of upset and anger among the Europeans. ![]()
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