U.S. rejects linking Iran nuclear deal, IAEA probes

“There should not be any conditionality between re-implementation of the JCPOA and investigations related to Iran’s legal obligations under the Non-proliferation Treaty,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters, referring to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) probes
into uranium traces found at three undeclared Iranian sites.
Iran’s foreign minister earlier this week said the U.N. atomic watchdog should drop its “politically motivated probes” of Tehran’s nuclear work.
Those investigations, which Washington has consistently said are a separate matter, are a stumbling block to reviving the 2015 deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) under which Iran had curbed its atomic program in return for U.S., U.N. and European Union (EU) sanctions relief.