French President Macron urges Iran to be 'patient and responsible' in nuclear deal
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has said on Monday that Iran should be immediately hit with sanctions if it surpasses a uranium stockpile limit set under the 2015 nuclear deal.
The top Iranian nuclear official said on the state television on Monday.
Netanyahu said: "Should Iran make good on its current threats and violate the nuclear agreement, the international community will need to immediately impose the sanctions regime that was agreed upon in advance, the 'snapback sanctions'," Netanyahu said.
Behrouz Kamalvandi who is the spokesman of Iran's atomic energy organisation said Monday his country intended to surpass the 300-kilogram reserve of enriched uranium in 10 days, but would reverse the move "once other parties live up to their commitments".
Behrouz Kamalvandi who is the spokesman of Iran's atomic energy organisation said Monday his country intended to surpass the 300-kilogram reserve of enriched uranium in 10 days, but would reverse the move "once other parties live up to their commitments".
On May 8, President Hassan Rouhani said Iran would stop observing restrictions on its stocks of enriched uranium and heavy water agreed under the 2015 nuclear deal.
Rouhani said the move was in retaliation for the US decision to unilaterally withdraw form the accord last year and impose tough economic sanctions on the Islamic republic.
Speaking at a ceremony in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said he was not surprised by Iran's declared intention to increase its uranium enrichment beyond the deal thanks to intelligence obtained in a 2018 operation.
"When we brought the secret nuclear archive from Teheran to Israel, we discovered the extent to which Iran has violated its promise to the international community -- its promise to report truthfully on its nuclear programme," he said.
"In any case, Israel will not allow Iran to achieve nuclear weapons," said Netanyahu, who backed US President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Iran denies its nuclear programme has military aspects. Its arch-enemy Israel is believed to be the Middle East's sole nuclear power but it has long refused to confirm or deny that it has such weapons.
Meanwhile, French President Macron has urges Iran to be 'patient and responsible' in nuclear deal.Rouhani said the move was in retaliation for the US decision to unilaterally withdraw form the accord last year and impose tough economic sanctions on the Islamic republic.
Speaking at a ceremony in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said he was not surprised by Iran's declared intention to increase its uranium enrichment beyond the deal thanks to intelligence obtained in a 2018 operation.
"When we brought the secret nuclear archive from Teheran to Israel, we discovered the extent to which Iran has violated its promise to the international community -- its promise to report truthfully on its nuclear programme," he said.
"In any case, Israel will not allow Iran to achieve nuclear weapons," said Netanyahu, who backed US President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Iran denies its nuclear programme has military aspects. Its arch-enemy Israel is believed to be the Middle East's sole nuclear power but it has long refused to confirm or deny that it has such weapons.
Macron on Monday urged Iran to be "patient and responsible" after Tehran said it would surpass the uranium stockpile limit set under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that the US has abandoned.
"I regret Iran's announcements today... We strongly encourage Iran to behave in a way that is patient and responsible," Macron said in a press conference at the presidential palace in Paris alongside his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.
To the dismay of Europe, President Donald Trump had unilaterally pulled the United States out of the nuclear deal last year, with Washington imposing tough sanctions on Iran.
Macron said that any kind of escalation in the nuclear standoff at the current time was in the interest of no-one.
"It is damaging to the interests of the Iranians themselves and also to the international community," he said.
"So we will do everything with our partners to dissuade Iran from this (surpassing the limit)," he said.
The United States has blamed Iran for last week's attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, a charge Tehran has denied as "baseless".
Macron took a more circumspect line, saying that "only once all the information has been gathered and all the doubts lifted can the attributions (of blame) be made in a certain way."
"I think that in the period that we are entering into it is useful to show calm," he added.
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