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The French Government Will Not Germany Says It Is “Extremely Concerned” About Iran’s Trigger the Iran Nuclear Deal’s Announcement That It Will Dispute Resolution Mechanism for Break the Limit on Uranium Now, Instead Giving Itself One Week Enrichment Set by the 2015 To Try to Get All Parties Talking Again Nuclear Deal With World Powers VOL. XXV, No. 6717 TEHRAN Price 20,000 Rials www.irannewsdaily.com MONDAY, JULY 08, - TIR 17, 1398 2 4 8 DOMESTIC 3 DOMESTIC INTERNATIONAL SPORTS European JCPOA Greece Goes Magnificent Federer Parties Expected to Trade Balance Cruises Into Support Iran Stance Becomes Positive To Polls Wimbledon Last 16 > SEE PAGE 2 > SEE PAGE 3 > SEE PAGE 4 > SEE PAGE 8 France Admits EU’s Failure to Tehran Starts Enriching viewPoint Make Up for U.S. Sanctions By: Hamid Reza Naghashian..... TEHRAN (IFP) - President of France has admitted to Uranium Beyond 3.67% Level IAEA’s Board of Governors his Iranian counterpart that the European Union has failed to take sufficient and effective measures to make Under U.S. Pressure up for the American sanctions against Iran after the U.S. The official website of the U.S. Mission to the withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal. International Organizations in a statement claimed, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his French “On July 5, in accordance with Rule 11 of the counterpart Emmanuel Macron discussed a range of Provisional Rules of Procedures of the IAEA Board of bilateral, regional and international issues in a telephone Governors, U.S. Ambassador to International conversation on Saturday. Organizations in Vienna Jackie Wolcott requested a In their talks, Macron said France concedes that special meeting of the Board to discuss the IAEA Europe’s measures to make up for the US sanctions on Director General’s latest, concerning report on the Iran have been unsuccessful and ineffectual, but Iran’s nuclear program. The United States strongly pledged that the Europeans will do their utmost to supports the IAEA and its verification efforts in Iran. compensate for the American pressures against Tehran. As Ambassador Wolcott has previously stated to the The EU has been strongly opposed to the U.S. IAEA Board of Governors, the Director General’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of thorough and factual reporting on Iran’s activities – and Action (JCPOA) from the beginning, Macron noted, any changes in those activities – is essential for the saying the EU wants the nuclear deal to be saved and Board to exercise its authority to accurately assess has put efforts into it. Iran’s implementation of its safeguards obligations and Stressing the need to control the situation and carry nuclear commitments. The international community out new plans and measures to salvage the JCPOA, must hold Iran accountable.” Macron warned that a collapse of the nuclear deal It should be noted that the U.S. government on May would be tantamount to a confession of collective 8, 2018, unilaterally pulled out of the JCPOA which failure and a deplorable incident. See Page 7 had been endorsed by the United Nations Security Council. Almost one year after the U.S. illegal pullout of the JCPOA and on July 1, Iran in response to the IRAN NEWS NATIONAL DESK U.S. pullout and Europe’s lack of commitment Iranians Will Not Compete regarding to its undertakings to the JCPOA announced TEHRAN - Iran on Sunday officially announced the beginning of the second phase of the reduction of its that the amount of its uranium enriched to 3.67 percent Against Israeli Athletes commitments under the Iran nuclear deal, boosting the level of its uranium enrichment to a level beyond the purity has surpassed 300 kilograms. 3.67% limit set by the JCPOA. Surpassing the permitted ceiling of enriched TEHRAN (Dispatches) - President of the Iran National The decision was announced by Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Rabiei in a press conference also attended uranium happened just days before the legal warning Olympic Committee Syed Reza Salehi Amiri said that by Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi and the spokesman for the Atomic Energy and the deadline by Iran’s Supreme National Iranian athletes will not compete against Israeli athletes, Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi. Security Council to the remaining signatories to the despite Iran claiming in a letter addressed to the International “Today we will surpass the 3.67% limit on uranium enrichment. The purity level will be based on our need, and JCPOA, in other words, UK, France, China and Judo Federation (IJF) that things might change. that will be officially realized today,” Rabiei said. Russia, in order to fulfill their undertakings The Judo World Championship will take place at the Araqchi said the second phase begins as the 60-day deadline Iran had given the other JCPOA parties is over especially in the oil and banking sectors. end of August, where the most anticipated encounter without Iran’s demands being fulfilled. Iran, also in an important statement addressing will be between Iranian Saeid Mollaei, who is ranked “As we announced in the first phase, we will longer remain committed to the uranium enrichment level, and the world, said that its move was a response to No. 1 in the 81 kg. weight group, and second ranked this will be announced to EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini in a letter by Foreign Minister Mohammad injustice and to protect its national pride and Israeli Sagi Muki. Javad Zarif today,” Araqchi said. dignity and based on the paragraphs 26 and 36 of At the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam in October, the Iranian Araqchi also said that the United States can take part in the meetings of the signatories to the Iran nuclear deal — from the nuclear deal. See Page 7 Judoka faked an injury to purposely lose a fight that which Washington has withdrawn — on the condition that it lifts sanctions against the country’s oil and banking sectors. would have led directly to an encounter with Muki. The Along with two other senior officials, Araqchi detailed Iran’s latest move in scaling back its commitments under Israeli went on to win the gold medal. the deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), after the European signatories The IJF said in a letter to Iran that: “The international missed a 60-day deadline to offset the adverse impacts of the unilateral US pullout. UK Ambassador Calls Trump’s judo community witnessed several times a disturbing “The U.S. has withdrawn from the JCPOA and cannot use any of its mechanisms, but it can attend the the P4+1 meetings phenomenon, which involves the sudden “injury” or on the said conditions. Our first condition [for the U.S.] is [the lifting of] oil and banking sanctions. Other sanctions would Iran Policy “Incoherent” failure of weigh-in of Iranian athletes... [because of] the be considered as well,” Araqchi, who was a senior negotiator in the talks that led to the JCPOA, said in his Sunday remarks. possible obligation of the given athletes to compete He stressed, however, that the deal would under no circumstances be renegotiated and that it should be LONDON (Dispatches) - Britain’s ambassador in the against certain countries.” See Page 7 implemented precisely as it is. Araqchi said there would be diplomatic visits in the coming days, including in the United States has described President Donald Trump form of a JCPOA ministerial meeting. See Page 7 and his administration as “inept” and criticized his policies on Iran as “chaotic,” according to leaked Iran Accuses U.S. of Disrupting diplomatic memos published by the Mail on Sunday. Ambassador Kim Darroch reportedly said Trump’s presidency could “crash and burn” and “end in Its Bitcoin Mining Operations Oil Declines as Global Economic Woes Outweigh Standoff With Iran disgrace,” in the cache of secret cables and briefing LONDON (Dispatches) - Oil declined as concerns that slowing economic growth will stymie energy demand notes sent back to Britain seen by the newspaper. TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Iran in recent months has been outweighed worries that a confrontation with Iran may threaten supplies. “We don’t really believe this administration is going to flooded with Chinese bitcoin miners. Now, an Iranian Futures lost as much as 1.5 percent in New York as anxieties over demand resurfaced this week following a slew of become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; politician believes the U.S. is looking to stop them. sluggish economic indicators from the U.S., China and Europe, even as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically Iran’s Assistant Minister of Industry, Trade and Countries and its allies agreed to extend output cuts. On Thursday, British special forces seized a supertanker off clumsy and inept,” Darroch allegedly wrote in one dispatch. Supply, Saeed Zarandi, said that Trump’s administration Gibraltar carrying Iranian oil to Syria, triggering a diplomatic row, but the tensions weren’t enough to lift prices. The paper said the most damning comments by is working to block bitcoin mining in the country, Oil is down for the week after plunging 4.8 percent on Tuesday, its worst decline right after an OPEC meeting Darroch described Trump, who was received by Queen according to local news outlet Fars. in more than four years. While the group’s Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo described the drop as an Elizabeth II during a state visit to Britain just last After lobbying to get the country out of the SWIFT “anomaly,” Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned of dangers from rising protectionism around the month, as “insecure” and “incompetent.” system, the U.S.