Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano announced that Iran was following the rules set-out in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, in which the P5+1 – which consisted out of the United States under the Obama Administration, Russia, China, France, Britain plus Germany – reached an agreement with Iran on limiting the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, in exchange for lifting international sanctions that have crippled Tehran’s economy. Speaking at a news conference during the agency’s quarterly Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, the IAEA Director General rejected Washington’s allegations with regard to Iran’s compliance to the nuclear agreement, underlining that the nuclear watchdog has access to all of Iran’s sites suspected of nuclear activities. Amano also commented on the so-called Section T of the agreement, which bans “activities which could contribute to the development of a nuclear explosive device” and includes examples such as using computer models that simulate a nuclear bomb, the so-called “dual-use technologies” that could be used to research nuclear-warhead designs. Unlike many other parts of the deal, Section T makes no mention of the IAEA, or any specifics on how it will be verified. In September, Amano warned of the challenges of Section T, urging the parties to the agreement to discuss the issue in their Joint Commission, a forum created by the deal, and called for them to provide clarifications on Section T’s implementation and clearer definitions of terms such as the technology referred to. Nevertheless, Russia – an ally of Iran – maintains that the provision means that the IAEA has no authority over Section T, rejecting any international monitoring.