Iran and Europe are in a push to keep the nuclear deal afloat
Iran's biggest European trading partners are Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, and Greece.
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) 2015
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International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano dies in office
He had been in poor health since 2018 and already let it be known he planned to resign next March, midway through his third term, which would have run through 2021.
U.N. confirms Iran violated nuclear deal's uranium stockpile limits
Iran is only allowed to enrich a certain amount of uranium up to 3.67%, enough to fuel a commercial nuclear power plant.
U.N. Security Council urges calm in Gulf as U.S.-Iran tensions escalate
The 15-nation council unanimously condemned recent attacks on oil tankers and called them a threat to international peace.
Iran threatens to exceed nuclear deal limit on uranium stockpile
A spokesperson for Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said the stockpile would exceed the limit before the end of June.
Swiss remind U.S. under Trump that the 'world needs multilateralism'
A meeting of top Swiss and U.S. diplomats focused on Iran but extended to America's rising tensions with other nations.
Iran to withdraw from parts of the nuclear deal after U.S. reneged
Tehran promised to return to the deal if China, France, Germany, Russia, the U.K. and E.U. give adequate help.
Trump administration's go-it-alone policies rapped at Munich summit
Leaders criticized the breakdown in transatlantic relations from U.S. isolationism despite China's growing power.
U.N. chief rallies nations to take action against a 'world of trouble'
António Guterres called for greater diplomacy, more climate ambition, better use of technology, more focus on the U.N.'s 17 major goals for 2030 and a renewal of foundational values.
U.S. midterm elections will revise America's international outlook
After eight years in the minority, Democrats vowed to redirect, block or investigate Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's domestic and foreign programs and priorities.
U.S. ordered by U.N. tribunal to lift some economic sanctions on Iran
Judges ruled that sanctions reinstated by the Trump administration breached a 1955 treaty between Iran and the United States that predates Iran's Islamic Revolution.
Trump calls U.N. 'unaccountable' in boastful attack on multilateralism
At the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed a vicious attack on the U.S.-hosted world body that he described as a largely usesless "global bureaucracy."
Trump administration rebukes International Criminal Court
U.S. President Donald Trump's belligerent national security adviser John Bolton harshly condemned the International Criminal Court, which is hated by conservatives.
U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal widens transatlantic rift
With the U.S. reversal, Iran's planned economic opening to the West depends on its European, Russian and Chinese partners.
Trump's anti-internationalism strains Western military alliance
After calling NATO obsolete and suggesting America might not defend other alliance members, U.S. President Donald Trump demanded other members raise their defense spending.
International organizations 'under attack' says Bono at Irish U.N. event
The implications of the U2 frontman's message extended well beyond Ireland's expected three-way race against Canada and Norway for two temporary seats on the U.N. Security Council.