Iran, P5+1 publish restricted documents of JCPOA

Iran and the P5+1 group of countries have released some previously restricted documents about the nuclear agreement they signed last year to support the argument that Tehran is not exceeding the limits imposed on its stockpile of enriched uranium.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) circulated the clarifications, laid out in eight documents, to its member states on Friday after receiving a letter from the European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, who authorized the publication.

Some of the documents are dated January 6, 2016, some 10 days before the nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), went into effect.

“These documents are merely providing clarifications, developed by the Joint Commission, for the implementation of Iran's nuclear-related measures as set out in the JCPOA," Mogherini's office said in an attached letter on Friday.

The documents' publication Friday came less than a month before the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, who has promised to tear up the nuclear deal once in the White House.

Publication of the document comes shortly after the IAEA urged Iran to curb its production of low-enriched uranium or face the possibility of exceeding its allotted limit. Two officials from one of the five permanent Security Council member nations at the table with Iran, however, said that Iran had remained committed to its obligations, according to the Associated Press.

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