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Timeline: Iran's troubled nuclear deal since Trump exit Tehran, Nov 4 (AFP) Nov 04, 2021 With talks on reviving a landmark 2015 agreement on Iran's nuclear programme poised to resume, we look at sanctions and brinkmanship since the United States pulled out of the pact in May 2018. Here is a timeline: - 2018: US withdrawal -
"We cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement," he says. - US sanctions -
Major international firms halt activities there as the US bans other nations from buying Iranian crude. - 2019: Iran starts walk-back -
Trump hits back by sanctioning Iran's steel and mining sectors. In July, Tehran says it has exceeded the accord's restrictions on both its enriched uranium reserves and enrichment levels. - 10-fold increase -
In November, Tehran says its enrichment increased tenfold and that it has developed two new advanced centrifuges. It then resumes enrichment at its Fordo plant. - 2020: Drone assassination -
Iran announces its fifth step back, foregoing a limit on its number of centrifuges. - Iranian demands -
In March, European signatories say they have delivered medical goods to Iran under a mechanism established to bypass US sanctions. On November 27, one of Iran's top nuclear scientists, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is killed near Tehran in an attack that Iran blames on Israel. - 2021: New breach -
The IAEA in February says Iran has started producing uranium metal, which can be used in nuclear weapons. It is also "deeply concerned" by the possible presence of nuclear material at an undeclared site as Iran restricts inspections. - 60 percent enrichment -
But nine days later Iran says it will start enriching uranium up to 60 percent after an attack on its Natanz plant that it blames on Israel. - Iran hits pause button -
But on August 5, he says it is again open to negotiations as experts warn nuclear work is continuing apace and advancing to dangerous levels. - Tehran ready to talk -
On October 27, after a meeting in Brussels, Iran says it is ready to resume indirect talks in Vienna. The US calls on it to show "good faith" when they start on November 29, saying a compromise could be reached quickly if Tehran is "serious".
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