Nuclear energy in Iran

So far, the EU has done nothing to save the 2015 nuclear agreement, Iran said, according to BTA.

President Hassan Rouhani on June 1 suggested Iran may be willing to hold talks if the United States showed it respect, but said Tehran would not be pressured into negotiations, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said he favours talks and diplomacy but not under current conditions, state news agency IRNA said late on May 20.

Iran is showing "maximum restraint" despite the U.S. withdrawal from a nuclear deal, the country's foreign minister said on May 16, accusing Washington of an "unacceptable" escalation in tensions.

Iran has officially stopped some commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers following an order from its national security council, an informed official in the country's atomic energy body told the ISNA news agency on May 15.

U.S. President Donald Trump on May 9 urged Iran's leadership to sit down and talk with him about giving up Tehran's nuclear program and said he could not rule out a military confrontation given the heightened tensions between the two countries.

The world powers struggling to preserve a nuclear deal with Iran are facing an increasingly uphill battle, with a new deadline from Tehran on finding a solution to make up for last year's unilateral U.S. withdrawal from the accord and the increasing economic hardship that has put on the Islamic Republic.

Iran will no longer respect limits it agreed on its enriched uranium and heavy water stocks under a 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, officials said on Wednesday,  FocusNews reported.

Iran's president said on May 8 that it will begin keeping its excess uranium and heavy water from its nuclear program, setting a 60-day deadline for new terms to its nuclear deal with world powers before it will resume higher uranium enrichment.

This would be achieved as part of "a comprehensive agreement," Beta agency is reporting, citing Pristina-based daily Koha Ditore.