Iran begins using advanced models of centrifuges to enrich uranium in new breach of 2015 deal – UN nuclear watchdog
US military says it was also putting additional capabilities on"prepare to deploy orders," meaning they could be mobilised more quickly in a crisis. The Pentagon announced on Thursday the deployment of 200 troops with Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia to help with the country's defence in the wake of last months attacks on oil installations blamed on Iran.
US military said it was also putting additional capabilities on "prepare to deploy orders," meaning they could be mobilised more quickly in a crisis.Iran has started using advanced models of centrifuges to enrich uranium, the UN's nuclear watchdog said on Thursday, in a new breach of the faltering 2015 deal with world powers.
China, which is already embroiled in a trade dispute with the United States, responded that its dealings with Iran were legal and should be respected. "These are the allegations voiced by a terrorist organisation known as FETO who are behind the failed coup of July 2016 in Turkey," Erdogan told Fox News.
Sweden's Stena Bulk said it was not in negotiations with Iran and not aware of any formal charges against the crew or the company. Separately, the chief of the powerful Revolutionary Guard in charge of the country's missile program, Gen. Hossein Salami, was quoted by the semi-official Tasnim news agency as saying Wednesday that Iran has shown self-restraint despite the capabilities of its military, including its missile program.
"If the sanctions are ended and there is a return to the accord, there is room for giving reassurances towards breaking the deadlock and the President has even a proposal for small changes in the accord," the spokesman, Ali Rabiei, said on state TV.Iran's foreign ministry said a detention order on the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero was lifted on Wednesday, but added that an investigation into the vessel was ongoing.
In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Abe called the Sept. 15 attacks on Saudi oil facilities "an extremely contemptible crime that holds the international economic order hostage". "I believe that the conditions in this context for a rapid return to negotiations have been created," Macron told reporters before heading back to Paris from New York, where he attended the annual United Nations General Assembly.
Johnson concurred, according to the report, saying: "I think I agree with Emmanuel. You need to be on the side of the swimming pool and jump at the same time."Trump must restore trust before any talks: Rouhani The leaders of France, Germany and Japan and Pakistan were all meeting separately with Trump and Iran's Rouhani, fanning speculation that the pair -- whose nations have been arch-enemies for four decades -- could have a historic encounter in New York.
"Trump asked me that if we could de-escalate the situation and maybe come up with another deal," Khan told reporters at the United Nations after meeting both Trump and Iranian President Rouhani.Iran rejects UK, France and Germany statements on Saudi attacks Iran's ambassador to Britain, Hamid Baeidinejad, had said in a Twitter post on Monday that the vessel was free to leave after legal hurdles had been cleared.
They pledged to try to ease tensions in the Middle East and urged Iran to "refrain from choosing provocation and escalation."Iran said British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero is "free" to leave more than two months after it was seized in the Gulf. He says the initiative is not limited to "security" but also encompasses economic cooperation and will be presented in detail at the UN.Johnson says Britain has concluded Iran was responsible for attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, and the UK will consider taking part in a US-led military effort to bolster the Gulf kingdom's defences.Saudi Arabia and the US also blame Iran.
He promised to unveil a regional peace plan at this week's upcoming high-level meetings at the United Nations.The United States aims to avoid war with Iran and the additional troops ordered to be deployed in the Gulf region are for "deterrence and defence," Pompeo said on Sunday. "Foreign forces can cause problems and insecurity for our people and for our region," Rouhani said in a televised speech at an annual military parade, adding that Iran would present to the UN a regional cooperation plan for peace."If they're sincere, then they should not make our region the site of an arms race," he said.
"We are certain that the launch did not come from Yemen, it came from the north. The investigations will prove that." Aramco is shipping equipment from the United States and Europe to rebuild the damaged facilities, Fahad Abdulkarim, Aramco's general manager for the southern area oil operation, told reporters on a tour organised by the company to the two sites east of the capital Riyadh.
The US has already applied an arsenal of sanctions on Iran since the administration withdrew in November from the 2015 nuclear deal. "The whole thing ... happened, with four strikes and explosions, with no single injury to any [staff]," he said, as he inspected damage.Saudi Arabia has taken journalists to the site of a missile-and-drone attack on a facility at the heart of the kingdom's oil industry.
Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh discussed cybersecurity and production bottlenecks during a visit to a major refinery and petrochemical plants on Iran's Gulf coast on Friday, the official news agency IRNA reported. The Saudi-led coalition on Friday launched a military operation north of Hudaida against what it described as "legitimate military targets."
"Coalition for Peaceful Resolution?," Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a statement on Twitter, and listed eight diplomatic initiatives by Iran since 1985, including a peace plan for Yemen in 2015, and a regional non-aggression pact for the Gulf region proposed earlier this year. Zarif left for New York early on Friday, Iranian state TV said, after Iran's UN mission confirmed that the United States has issued visas allowing Rouhani and Zarif to attend the United Nations General Assembly.The United Nations says its panel of experts on Yemen have arrived in Saudi Arabia to investigate an attack on the kingdom's oil facilities.He said the inspectors had "started their mission, undertaken at the invitation of the Saudi authorities." He did not elaborate.
He added that any sanctions placed by the US on Iran after pulling out of the nuclear deal would need to be lifted before any negotiations could be considered.Iran asks Gulf states to 'come to their senses,' warns against attacks - Fars He says the situation could deescalate if Iran can be convinced "something like this is not acceptable."France's top diplomat is expressing doubt at claims by Yemen's rebel Houthis that they are responsible for recent drone attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.He would not speculate on who was responsible, but reiterated that France sent its own experts to Saudi Arabia to investigate what happened.
Pompeo's made the comments on Twitter while he was in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, after meeting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's defence minister. The United Arab Emirates announced it had joined a US-led coalition to protect waterways across the Mideast after the attack on Saudi oil installations.
The UN chief said that the experts were authorised to start a probe under the Security Council resolution that endorsed the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, which the US blames for the attacks. "The attack was launched from the north and unquestionably sponsored by Iran," defence ministry spokesman Turki al Maliki told a press conference. "We are working to know the exact launch point."
The IRNA separately reported Wednesday that Iran's first delegation for the annual UN event had not left Iran because they had not acquired visas. Foreign Minister Zarif was to travel to New York on Friday, with Iran's Rouhani following Monday, according to the agency.Trump on Wednesday said he ordered a major increase in sanctions on Iran in the latest US move to pressure Tehran, which US officials say probably carried out a crippling weekend attack on Saudi oil facilities.
Saudi officials separately planned to share information about the weapons used to attack a Saudi oil field and the world's largest crude oil processing plant Saturday.Iran has sent the United States a diplomatic note denying any role in attacks on Saudi oil installations and warning of a response to any action, state media said Wednesday.
"He will announce the final results of the investigation and present material evidence and Iranian weapons proving the Iranian regime's involvement in the terrorist attack," the ministry said.Iranian President Rouhani told his Cabinet that Saudi Arabia should see the Houthi-claimed attack on its oil facilities as a warning to end its war in Yemen.
Macron strongly condemned the attack, the Elysee Palace said, and assured Salman that France was committed to stability in the Middle East. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Trump administration has concluded last weekend's attack involved cruise missiles from Iran and that evidence would be presented at the UN General Assembly next week.Saudi Arabia's energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman says 50 percent of the production cut by the attack on its oil processing plant has been restored.
There has been speculation about a possible meeting between President Trump and his Iranian counterpart, Rouhani, during the upcoming UN General Assembly this month in New York.The US readied its response on Monday to the "unprecedented" attack on Saudi oil facilities as Trump said Iran was likely to blame, fanning new fears of conflict in the Gulf region.
"This boat was sailing from Bandar Lengeh towards United Arab Emirates waters before it was seized 32 kilometres east of Greater Tunb island," Brigadier General Ali Ozmayi was quoted as saying.Russia urges countries in the Middle East and outside the region not to draw 'hasty conclusions' on who attacked Saudi oil facilities, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
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