Even Iran’s phlegmatic foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif looks to have run out of patience. One year on from the unilateral US abrogation of the 2015 nuclear deal known as the JCPOA, Iran has given the deal’s three European signatories, France, Germany and the UK, 60 days to “fulfill their obligations.”

In a televised address on 8 May – the first anniversary of the US withdrawal from the JCPOA – Iranian president Hassan Rohani said his country was scaling back compliance. The country has put on hold relinquishment of uranium and other nuclear materials. (CONTINUED - 2392 WORDS)