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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S.-Iran nuclear accordance (all times EDT):
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A agent says United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "strongly hopes" the Iran nuclear accordance will abide in place, afterwards U.S. Admiral Donald Trump accused Iran of actionable the accordance and said he ability cull the U.S. out.
U.N. agent Stephane Dujarric addendum that Guterres has connected accepted the 2015 alliance as a actual important beforehand to axis the beforehand of nuclear weapons and beforehand all-around peace.
The U.N. bureau ecology the nuclear accordance says Iran is anniversary its commitments.
But Trump says Tehran has bootless to account the spirit of the accordance and has committed "multiple violations" of the pact.
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6:10 p.m.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says his aboriginal antecedence on Iran, now that Admiral Donald Trump has appear his new approach, is to advise with allies.
Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon on Friday he wants to apprehend contiguous from allies in the Middle East and beyond, to accept bigger their angle on what the Trump administering calls "misbehavior" in areas added than nuclear weapons. He was apropos to Iranian abutment for agitator groups and its ballistic missile program, amid others.
Mattis says the U.S. intends to "dissuade" Iran from aircraft accoutrements to Yemen, area it supports Shiite rebels accepted as Houthis. He says this does not betoken any U.S. advancing activity but rather a administering of intelligence with allies and ally who allotment a affair about Iranian behavior.
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5:30 p.m.
The arch of the U.N. bureau ecology the nuclear accordance amid Iran and six apple admiral says Iran is anniversary its commitments.
The account from Yukiya Amano of the All-embracing Diminutive Energy Bureau was issued Friday afterwards U.S. Admiral Donald Trump said he could not accredit Iran's acquiescence because the country has committed "multiple violations" of the deal.
Amano says the "nuclear-related commitments undertaken by Iran ... are actuality implemented" and Tehran is "subject to the world's best able-bodied nuclear analysis regime."
Trump is not abandoning from the accordance or re-imposing nuclear sanctions. Instead, he tossed the affair to Congress and the added nations in the accord.
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5:15 p.m.
Former Secretary of Accompaniment John Kerry says Admiral Donald Trump's accommodation not to accredit the Iran nuclear accordance is adventuresome and divisive.
Kerry led the Obama administration's Iran accordance negotiations. In a account Friday, Kerry says Trump is "creating an all-embracing crisis."
Kerry says it is now up to Congress and the added parties to the accordance to be "the adults in the room" and save it.
Trump's accommodation stops abbreviate of affairs the United States out of the Iran accordance and bliss the affair to Congress.
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4:10 p.m.
Israel's abbot of intelligence says Admiral Donald Trump's accommodation not re-certify the Iran nuclear accordance signals the administration's boldness to adverse the blackmail Iran poses.
Israel Katz says Trump's move sets the date for accretion burden and for "fixing some of the flaws in the alarming nuclear acceding which in its present anatomy will acquiesce Iran to advance a nuclear adequacy in the not so abroad future." Katz says the accordance provides Iran with "a affectionate of an allowance activity until then."
Israel has been a angry analyzer of the 2015 deal, which aerial sanctions on Iran in barter for concessions apropos its nuclear program. Israel has connected warned that it bootless to abode Iran's abutment for active groups who act adjoin it.
Iran aboveboard calls for Israel's destruction.
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4 p.m.
French Admiral Emmanuel Macron is countering U.S. Admiral Donald Trump's Iran advertisement by captivation talks with Iran's admiral and alliance abutment for the all-embracing nuclear accord.
Macron's appointment says he batten Friday with Iranian Admiral Hassan Rouhani, who gave assurances of Iran's charge to the 2015 accord. Macron didn't abode the accident of new U.S. sanctions.
Macron says he apprenticed Rouhani to advice achieve the Syrian crisis as allotment of efforts to advance trust.
Macron's account says Rouhani will host the All-embracing Diminutive Energy Bureau arch in Iran abutting week, and the French adopted abbot will go to Iran anon to altercate the accord.
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3:42 a.m.
Secretary of Accompaniment Rex Tillerson says he absolutely expects that U.S. allies in Europe and the Middle East will be "very supportive" of Admiral Donald Trump's accomplishments on Iran.
Tillerson is speaking afterwards Trump accused Iran of actionable the nuclear accordance but chock-full abbreviate of affairs out or re-imposing sanctions.
European countries that adjourned the 2015 accordance with Iran and the U.S. had apprenticed him not to do so and declared they were aloof in renegotiating the deal.
But Tillerson says it's "in all of our interest" to assignment calm to accost the blackmail airish by Iran. He says that Trump's plan is "quite clear."
Tillerson batten during a photo-op with the visiting arch of the Organization of American States.
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3:40 p.m.
The Senate's top Democrat who adjoin the Iran nuclear accordance two years ago now says the accordance is in the civic aegis interests of the U.S.
Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York is advancement Admiral Donald Trump to accumulate the seven-nation alliance in place.
Schumer says in a abrupt account that Trump should accept to his top civic aegis admiral who've recommended that the nuclear acceding be preserved.
Trump has threatened to cull the United States out of the accordance unless Congress is able to fix the accord's flaws and additionally acclimate the law that governs U.S. accordance in it.
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3:20 p.m.
A arch Russian administrator says Admiral Donald Trump's accommodation not to recertify the Iran nuclear acceding raises the crisis of conflict.
Frants Klintsevich is agent administrator of the aegis board in the high abode of parliament. He tells the Interfax account agency, "The conception of an ambiguous bearings can advance to Iran reacting. With its assets and capabilities, Iran is a actual austere country."
Separately, Agent Adopted Abbot Sergei Ryabkov is quoted by Interfax as adage there is a adventitious the two-year-old Iran nuclear accordance "will abstain a complete and annihilative advance from its opponents, and it should be tried."
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3:15 p.m.
Saudi Arabia is praising Admiral Donald Trump's boxy words about the kingdom's rival, Iran.
The Saudi government says in a account agitated by the accompaniment TV anchorperson that the commonwealth welcomes Trump's "commitment to assignment with U.S. allies in the arena to face accepted challenges, decidedly Iran's advancing policies."
While Saudi Arabia says it supports the nuclear accordance in place, it accuses Iran base the bread-and-butter allowances of sanctions actuality aerial "to abide destabilizing the region, abnormally through its ballistic missile development affairs and its abutment for agitation in the region."
The Sunni absolution additionally names Iran's abetment of Shiite militias like Hezbollah in its account of abutment for Trump's tougher stance.
Saudi Arabia and Iran aback clashing factions in Syria and Yemen, and opposing groups in Lebanon, Bahrain and Iraq.
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2:58 p.m.
Iranian Admiral Hassan Rouhani says his country "will abide to stick to" the nuclear deal, calling it "much stronger" than U.S. Admiral Donald Trump thinks.
Rouhani fabricated the comments in a accent that aired Friday night on accompaniment television.
It came afterwards Trump angrily accused Iran of actionable the spirit of the 2015 accordance and accepted Congress acclimate the law administering U.S. participation. Trump said he is not accessible to cull out of the accordance but warned he would do so if it is not improved.
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2:57 p.m.
Iran's government says U.S. Admiral Donald Trump's affirmation that Iran has abandoned the spirit of the 2015 nuclear accordance "has no all-embracing appliance or credibility." Tehran said the accordance can't be adjourned or altered.
A account provided by Iran's U.N. mission says Iran won't be the aboriginal to airing abroad from the deal, but "if its rights and interests in the accordance aren't respected," it will resume what it says is a peaceful nuclear program.
Trump's accent accused Iran of a account of antagonistic behavior and appear new U.S. anti-terrorism sanctions adjoin Iran's capital advancing wing, the Revolutionary Guard. Trump additionally alleged on U.S. allies to advice appoint sanctions that would ambition Iran's ballistic missile program.
Iran says its missiles are absolutely arresting and that any U.S. activity adjoin the Revolutionary Guard will draw "a able and unified alternate reaction."
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2:50 p.m.
Israeli Prime Abbot Benjamin Netanyahu has congratulated U.S. Admiral Trump for his accommodation not to re-certify to Congress the Iran nuclear deal.
In a account appear Friday, Netanyahu accepted what he alleged a "courageous decision." He says Trump has created an befalling to "fix this bad deal" and to cycle aback Iran's aggression. He encouraged all added accordant nations to do the same.
Netanyahu has been a angry analyzer of the 2015 deal, which aerial sanctions on Iran in barter for concessions apropos its nuclear program. He has connected warned that it bootless to abode Iran's abutment for active groups who act adjoin Israel.
Iran is Israel's adversary and aboveboard calls for its destruction.
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2:40 p.m.
The leaders of Britain, France and Germany say they "stand committed" to the Iran nuclear accordance and are "concerned by the accessible implications" of a U.S. accommodation to no best aback it in its accepted form.
British Prime Abbot Theresa May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French Admiral Emmanuel Macron issued a collective account Friday night calling the accordance "the acme of 13 years of diplomacy" and "a above footfall appear ensuring that Iran's nuclear affairs is not absent for advancing purposes."
The three leaders are advancement the Trump administering and Congress to accede the accessible after-effects for the West's aegis "before demography any accomplish that ability undermine" the deal, including arty sanctions on Iran that the acceding lifted.
U.S. Admiral Donald Trump appear Friday that he will not re-certify the accordance to Congress, and said if Congress can't appear up with new legislation, he will abolish the Obama-era pact.
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2:30 p.m.
The top Democrat in the Abode is calling Admiral Donald Trump's abnegation to accredit that Iran is acknowledging with the nuclear acceding "a grave mistake."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California says Trump's accommodation threatens U.S. aegis and credibility.
She says Trump abandoned "the cutting accordance of nuclear scientists, civic aegis experts, generals and his own Cabinet, including, reportedly, his secretary of aegis and secretary of state."
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told a Senate board aftermost anniversary that it's in the civic aegis interests of the United States to break a allotment of the all-embracing accord.
She says America's allies in Europe accept no ambition of abrogation the seven-nation pact.
Pelosi says if Trump's acumen leads to an unraveling of the deal, it'll be the United States that's isolated, not Iran.
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2:15 p.m.
President Donald Trump says that if Congress doesn't appear up with satisfactory changes to the Iran nuclear accordance in a "very short" aeon of time again he's able to "terminate" it.
Trump tells reporters afterward a White Abode accent that he's "very black with Iran." He says the country "has to behave abundant differently."
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This is President Trump's Official Portrait | president trump official photoTrump is not abandoning from the accordance but instead has asked Congress to appear up with a fix. It's an access that he defended.
Trump says, "I like the two footfall activity abundant better."
Still, he says, he may accept to cull out at a afterwards date: "We'll see what happens over the abutting abbreviate aeon of time."
He additionally says apple leaders, including from France and Britain, apprenticed him not to atom it.
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1:55 p.m.
European Union adopted activity arch Federica Mogherini (feh-deh-REE'-kah moh-gehr-EE'-nee) says the Iran nuclear accordance is a able-bodied acceding that is alive and cannot be concluded by any leader, including U.S. Admiral Donald Trump.
Mogherini said Friday that the accordance "is a able-bodied accordance that provides guarantees and a able ecology apparatus so that Iran's nuclear affairs is, and will remain, alone for noncombatant purposes only."
Mogherini, who formed on account of above apple admiral to defended the deal, told reporters that "there accept been no violations of any of the commitments."
She accent that Trump cannot annihilate the deal, saying: "the Admiral of the United States has abounding powers. Not this one."
She added that the EU charcoal committed to the Iran nuclear pact.
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1:40 p.m.
House Apostle Paul Ryan says the Iran nuclear accordance artificial during the Obama administering is "fatally flawed" and he backs Admiral Donald Trump's accommodation to check the seven-nation accord.
The Wisconsin Republican says weaknesses in the nuclear acceding will acquiesce Iran "to accompany nuclear weapons beneath the guise of all-embracing legitimacy" already specific restrictions on Iran's nuclear affairs expire afterwards agreed periods of time.
Ryan says artlessly administering a bad acceding is not sufficient.
Trump has declared he will not re-certify the Iran nuclear deal. He says Tehran has bootless to account the spirit of the accordance and has committed "multiple violations" of the pact.
Ryan says the GOP-led Abode will assignment with the Trump administering "to adverse Iran's ambit of destabilizing activities."
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1:22 p.m.
President Donald Trump says he will not re-certify the Iran nuclear accordance because the country is not active up to the spirit of the accordance and has committed "multiple violations."
Trump says during a White Abode accent Friday that he "cannot and will not accomplish this certification."
Trump says he is administering his administering to assignment carefully with Congress to abode the deal's "many flaws" and to accomplish abiding the country can never abuse the U.S. with nuclear weapons.
He says that if Congress can't appear up with new legislation, he will abolish the Obama-era pact.
Any accommodation to re-impose nuclear-related sanctions would automatically annihilate America's accordance in the deal.
Trump's move is about a accommodation that allows him to adjudge the accordance but stop abbreviate of torpedoing it.
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1:18 p.m.
The Trump administering is hitting Iran's aristocratic Revolutionary Guard with sanctions for acknowledging terrorism.
The new appellation uses absolute sanctions ascendancy created by an controlling adjustment in 2001. The Treasury Department says the penalties are abuse for acknowledging the Quds force, an expeditionary assemblage of the Revolutionary Guard. The Treasury Department additionally says the Revolutionary Guard has accurate baleful activities by Hezbollah and Hamas, and enabled Syrian Admiral Bashar Assad's "relentless attack of barbarous abandon adjoin his own people."
But the U.S. is not abacus the Revolutionary Guard to the academic U.S. account of adopted agitator organizations. That footfall would force the U.S. to booty alike added accomplish adjoin the Revolutionary Guard that Secretary of Accompaniment Rex Tillerson says could be problematic.
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1:15 p.m.
President Donald Trump says Iran is not active up to the "spirit" of the nuclear accordance that it active in 2015. He's announcement a new activity in a accent at the White House.
Trump says the administering will seek to adverse the regime's destabilizing activities and will appoint added sanctions on the administering to block its costs of terrorism.
The admiral says the new activity will additionally seek to abode the admeasurement of Iran's missiles and weapons.
And he says the U.S. will abjure Iran's paths to advance nuclear weapons.
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1:10 p.m.
President Donald Trump is criticizing the Iran nuclear accordance as he discusses his administration's access activity forward.
Trump says in a White Abode accent that the accordance was "one of the worst" and best "one-sided affairs the United States has anytime entered into."
Trump is arguing the sanctions aerial by the accordance gave the country's leaders a "lifeline" aback they were in banking trouble.
And he says the accordance delivered anemic inspections in barter for no added than a acting adjournment in Iran's aisle to nuclear weapons.
Trump is giving a accent actualization his administration's new activity for ambidextrous with the country.
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1 p.m.
The administrator of the Senate Adopted Relations Board says he'll be introducing legislation in the abutting two weeks that will abode the all-embracing acceding that formed aback Iran's nuclear program.
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Trump's Official Portrait Briefly Deleted from Wikipedia Over ... | president trump official photoSen. Bob Corker says the bill won't breach the U.S. charge to the nuclear deal. He says the admeasurement requires the admiral to accredit to Congress alert a year instead of every 90 canicule that Iran is acknowledging with the pact. Admiral Donald Trump has bristled over the abundance of the certifications.
The Tennessee Republican says the legislation would reinstitute U.S. sanctions adjoin Iran if Tehran gets aural one year of accepting nuclear weapons. The admeasurement additionally expands the "verification powers" of the All-embracing Diminutive Energy Agency.
He says he's alive with Republican Sen. Tom Cotton on the legislation.
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11:35 a.m.
Secretary of Accompaniment Rex Tillerson says Admiral Donald Trump will not abjure from the Iran nuclear accordance or reimpose sanctions, but he will say the alliance is not in U.S. civic aegis interests.
Trump is appointed to accordance a accent Friday afternoon on the nuclear accord, which he has again denounced as the affliction accordance in American history. The plan would acquiesce Trump to accumulate up his criticism of the deal, while additionally abating U.S. allies that Washington will not airing abroad from it — at diminutive not immediately.
Tillerson said Friday that Trump would appetite Congress to acclimate requirements for Iran to abide to get abatement from U.S. sanctions. The administering wants Congress additionally to alter legislation to highlight adverse non-nuclear Iranian behavior not covered by the deal.
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8:40 a.m.
A European agent abutting to the Iran nuclear accordance says EU adopted ministers are accepted to alarm for the accord's connected implementation.
The agent batten anon afore U.S. Admiral Donald Trump was accepted to appetite U.S. assembly to arrange boxy new requirements for Tehran.
The arch EU agent acclaimed Friday that the Trump administering has already certified it twice, and that the All-embracing Energy Bureau has done so eight times.
Should Trump decertify the deal, the agent said the EU's bulletin to Iran "is actual clear: you accept to stick to the agreement."
The agent batten on activity of anonymity because the being was not accustomed to allege publicly.
The agent said the EU believes the nuclear accordance is "a actual acceptable acceding because it has a actual stringent, abiding analysis and ecology mechanism."
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8:30 a.m.
The French government reaffirms its "attachment" to the nuclear accordance with Iran and insists on the accent of multilateralism to break all-embracing issues.
French adopted affairs' backer Agnes Romatet-Espagne said in a account the accordance is a "solid, able-bodied and absolute apparatus guaranteeing that Iran will not get the nuclear weapons"
Romatet-Espagne said "multilateralism is the alone way to actualize a abiding peace."
Trump is not accepted to advertise that the U.S. is abandoning from the deal, but he will appetite U.S. assembly to arrange boxy new requirements for Tehran to abide to account from the sanctions relief.
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7:50 a.m.
The Kremlin is admonishing that a U.S. move to slight the Iran nuclear accordance would aching all-around security.
Dmitry Peskov, a agent for Russian Admiral Vladimir Putin, said that spiking the accordance "would assuredly aching the atmosphere of predictability, security, adherence and non-proliferation in the absolute world."
Peskov batten hours afore U.S. Admiral Donald Trump was accepted to bear a accent agonizingly criticizing the 2015 nuclear accord. Trump is not accepted to advertise that the U.S. is abandoning from the deal, but he will appetite U.S. assembly to arrange boxy new requirements for Tehran to abide to account from the sanctions relief.
The antecedent acceding complex the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China.
Peskov said that the U.S. move adjoin the nuclear accordance would accept "very abrogating consequences" and "seriously aggravate the bearings about the Iranian nuclear dossier." He added that Iran has warned that it would acknowledge by opting out of the deal.
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7:45 a.m.
The German government says the nuclear accordance with Iran is an "important instrument" to anticipate the country from accepting diminutive weapons and that Berlin will abide to abutment abounding implementation.
Government agent Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin on Friday that "we accede this accordance to be an important apparatus to anticipate Iran's nuclear armament. That's why we will abide to assignment for its abounding implementation."
German Adopted Abbot Sigmar Gabriel has accomplished out to U.S. Secretary of Accompaniment Rex Tillerson again in contempo weeks, including backward Thursday, to altercate the Iran deal.
A backer for Gabriel said German, French and British diplomats accept additionally been affair with U.S. assembly from both parties in Washington to columnist the European appearance of the deal's importance.
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7:20 a.m.
The Iranian assembly apostle says any U.S. move adjoin a nuclear accordance with Iran be an insult to the United Nations.
Ali Larijani (lehr-uh-ZHAH'-nee) batten on a appointment to Russia hours afore Admiral Donald Trump was accepted to bear a accent agonizingly criticizing the 2015 accord.
The acceding offered Iran abatement from crippling bread-and-butter sanctions in barter for austere banned on its nuclear program. It was agilely adjourned by then-President Barack Obama's administering and additionally complex a affiliation of apple admiral including the Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China.
Larijani said the accordance has accustomed a U.N. blessing, so any move to fasten it would be "an insult to the U.N." He added that any afterlight of the accordance would acquiesce Iran to booty its own action.
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5 a.m.
President Donald Trump will say Friday the Iran nuclear accordance is no best in U.S. civic aegis interests, but he won't abjure from the battleground deal.
The Iran accordance was adjourned over 18 months by the Obama administration. Beneath U.S. law, Trump faces a Sunday borderline to acquaint Congress whether Iran is acknowledging with the accord.
In a accent from the White House, Trump is accepted to outline faults he finds in the alliance and will additionally focus on an arrangement of Iran's adverse non-nuclear activities. Those accommodate Tehran's ballistic missile affairs and abutment for Syrian Admiral Bashar Assad, as able-bodied as Lebanon's Hezbollah movement.
Trump is accepted to say these accomplishments breach the spirit of the bounded stability.
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