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Iran claims nuclear program will continue after end of US waivers

Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization dismissed the decision by the United States to end waivers on cooperation involving the country's nuclear program and said the nation will be self-sufficient in those areas.
A view of the water nuclear reactor at Arak, Iran December 23, 2019. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC221E9YL22A

The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi, has shrugged off the latest decision by the United States to end the waivers for Iran’s nuclear program, which were among the few remaining elements of the 2015 nuclear deal the Trump administration exited in 2018.

“America is trying to distract world public opinion with these actions given Iran’s powerful actions in the world and the continuation of its nuclear program,” Kamalvandi told the Iranian Students’ News Agency on May 28. He said Iran’s ability to sell fuel to Venezuela despite US threats against doing so, Iran’s “strength on the free seas of the world” and Iran’s “impressive advancement” in its nuclear program forced the United States to make this decision to create news.

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