Chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, who heads the organization that is in charge of monitoring Iran’s compliance with the nuclear agreement reached with world powers, met with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the State Department in Washington for the first time. The United Nations nuclear watchdog Chief was said by officials to advocate on behalf of the agreement, after the American top diplomat called for a full review of the nuclear accord.
The Agreement, reached in July of 2015 between Tehran and the P5+1 – the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain plus Germany – demands from the Islamic Republic to limit its nuclear program, after intelligence agencies indicated Iran’s aspiration of developing nuclear weapons. In exchange for Iranian compliance to the nuclear accord, the International community agreed to lift crippling sanctions on Tehran’s economy. Tillerson’s call for a “full review” of the accord, aligns with the positions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, both of whom have blasted the agreement as a “historic mistake,” and “the worst deal ever negotiated.”