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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

UK to breach Iran nuclear deal with refusal to lift sanctions

An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US mural in Tehran
An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US mural in Tehran. As president, Donald Trump took the US out of the nuclear deal in 2018. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA

The UK and other European powers are expected to announce plans to breach the 2015 Iran nuclear deal for the first time when they confirm they are not going to lift sanctions on Tehran’s use of missiles this October as required in the agreement.

Donald Trump took the US out of the nuclear deal in 2018, but Germany, France and the UK remained inside the deal, even though Iran responded to the US walkout by breaching the agreed limits on the quality and quantity of enriched uranium. Iran is closer to producing weapons-grade uranium than ever before.

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