USA, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany have agreed on a deadline for a nuclear agreement with Iran, according to information to Axios and the news agency AP.
If no agreement is reached before the deadline expires at the end of August, the UN sanctions against Iran that were lifted in connection with the previous nuclear energy agreement, JCPOA, in 2015 will be reintroduced.
According to the US Department of State, the new deadline aims to ensure that Iran does not develop or acquire nuclear weapons.
JCPOA was concluded between Iran and the five then-permanent members of the UN Security Council - France, China, the United Kingdom, Russia, and USA - as well as Germany. The agreement gave the outside world greater insight into the Iranian atomic energy program in exchange for Iran limiting its uranium enrichment, but when the USA abruptly left the agreement and reintroduced sanctions in 2018, Iran began to deviate from its promises.
New talks between the USA and Iran broke down with the twelve-day war between Israel and Iran in June, which ended after the USA bombed several Iranian nuclear energy facilities.
