美, 對이란 추가제재 경고…트럼프 "조심하는 게 좋을 것"
What remains of the Iran nuclear deal is now on life support... as Tehran declared it will enrich unranium at a higher-level.
The UN nuclear agency announced it'll convene an emergency meeting on the pact this week.
Here's Kim Ji-yeon with the updates.
The U.S. strongly denounced Iran's move to start enriching uranium beyond a limit set in a 2015 nuclear deal.
U.S. President Donald Trump, on his way back to Washington from New Jersey to reporters on Sunday said the U.S. will continue to impose maximum pressure on Iran... unless the nation stops developing nuclear weapons.
President Trump withdrew from the 2015 deal formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a nuclear multilateral accord intended to limit Iran's civilian nuclear program and prevent it from developing nuclear weapons... and re-introduced economic sanctions on Iran last year.
"Iran better be careful, because you enrich for one reason and I won't tell you what the reason is, but it's no good. They better be careful."
The warning comes on the heels of senior Iranian officials stating that Tehran will reduce its commitments incrementally every 60 days by passing the 3-point-67 percent uranium enrichment cap set in the deal ... unless other signatories of the pact, namely the UK, Germany, France, Russia and China,... protect Iran from U.S. sanctions.
After the announcement, Iran's government spokesperson Ali Rabiei said in a tweet that "increasing the level of enrichment is in line with Tehran's needs for economic development and is of a deeply peaceful nature."
Under the 2015 deal, Iran had agreed to reduce the number of nuclear centrifuges by two-thirds and slash its stockpile of uranium by 98-percent... in return for a lifting of economic sanctions.
A spokesperson from the International Atomic Energy Agency said it'll hold an emergency meeting this Wednesday to discuss Iran's nuclear program... following a request by the U.S.
Kim Ji-yeon, Arirang News.
