On 12 June, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano told the quarterly meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors that the agency is verifying and monitoring Iran’s implementation of ‘all its nuclear-related commitments’ under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). He did not say Iran is in compliance, because judging this is not the IAEA’s role, but the report he presented earlier in the month showed no deviations from Iran’s obligations.

Governments are free to make their own JCPOA compliance determinations. The US did so in an 18 April letter from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Congress, which said that Iran had been in compliance up to that date. Legislation concerning the JCPOA requires such a certification every three months. Other parties to the JCPOA do not have similar legislative requirements, but all – with the exception of Iran, which criticizes US compliance with sanctions relief provisions – have spoken positively about the implementation of the deal (such as in a statement by EU Foreign Policy Chief to the UN on 9 May). 

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