Iran ditches nuclear deal following U.S. killing of top general – By Shant Shahrigian (New York Daily News) / Jan 5 2020
Iranian lawmakers chant anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans to protest against the U.S. killing of Iranian top general Qassem Soleimani, at the start of an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. (Mohammad Hassanzadeh/AP Photo)
Iran said it was ending the 2015 agreement limiting its nuclear program for good, following the U.S. killing of its top general.
The deal was already unraveling after President Trump pulled out of the agreement, brokered by his predecessor Barack Obama, at the start of the Trump administration.
But a statement on Iranian state TV on Sunday appeared to mark the death blow for the deal, known as JCPOA, which had limited Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium, a key ingredient in nuclear weapons.
Coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others who were killed in Iraq by a U.S. drone strike are carried on a truck surrounded by mourners during a funeral procession in Mashhad, Iran, on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. (Mohammad Hossein Thaghi/AP Photo)
“The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has in a statement announced its fifth and final step in reducing Iran’s commitments under the JCPOA,” the Associated Press quoted a state TV broadcaster as saying. “The Islamic Republic of Iran no longer faces any limitations in operations.”
The move came as the Iraqi parliament voted Sunday to kick U.S. troops out of the country.
There was no immediate comment from the White House on the developments.
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