IRAN’S withdrawal from implementing parts of the 2015 nuclear deal yesterday will be intensified in the future in case Tehran’s interests under the pact cannot be honored, Iranian authorities said.

The move by Iran comes after its persistent demands that the Europeans and other signatories of the deal should protect Tehran’s economic and financial interests were not heeded appropriately.

Yesterday, ambassadors of France, Britain, Germany, Russia and China in Tehran received letters authorized by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), saying that Iran is scaling back compliance with two of its commitments under the nuclear deal.

Iran might stop more compliance with the nuclear deal after 60 days, the letters revealed.

Iran’s initial steps to stray away from its commitments subject to the deal were detailed by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s televised speech yesterday when he said that Iran would begin to build up stockpiles of its enriched uranium and heavy water. “It doesn’t mean that Iran leaves the nuclear agreement, known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),” he said.

The Iranian president said that Iran is ready for talks on its JCPOA-related economic interests, in which a wide range of sanctions on the Iranian economy had been lifted but were reimposed by U.S. President Donald Trump following his entire withdrawal from the 2015 agreement last year.

Under the nuclear deal clinched between Iran and the world’s six major powers in 2015, Iran accepted to send out its low-grade enriched uranium once its production exceeded 300 kg. Additionally, Iran had to sell the extra amount of heavy water product beyond 130 tons.

Iran will wait for 60 days to start negotiations with the signatories of the nuclear deal over its economic interests enshrined by the nuclear deal, including its oil sales and international banking transactions, Rouhani said yesterday.

“The path we have chosen today is not the path of war. It is the path of diplomacy,” Rouhani said, adding that if Iran achieves no results after 60 days, it will adopt two more counter-measures to the U.S. withdrawal from the deal.

Rouhani threatened that Iran might increase the level of uranium enrichment and start modernizing its heavy water reactor.

“Under the nuclear deal, Iran accepted to keep the level of its enriched uranium at 3.67 percent. After 60 days if there is no result for talks, we will not honor the level for uranium enrichment,” he said.

“At that time, Iran will also start to complete the construction of the Arak Heavy Water establishment,” he added.

(Xinhua)