Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Current Affairs, GK & News

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

May 21, 2018

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA is an agreement of China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK, the US and the European Union (EU) with Iran signed in 2015. Features of the pact: As per the agreement, Iran agreed to make certain changes to its nuclear programme to ensure it does not threaten the regional stability. In ..

Iran’s Strategic Measures for the Removal of Sanctions: Highlights

November 30, 2020

The Iranian Parliament has recently passed a bill called the “Strategic Measures for the Removal of Sanctions”. The bill aims to boost the nuclear activity of Iran in the wake of killing of the Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. He was the head of the Iranian defence ministry innovation centre. He was assassinated on November ..

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France and UK reaffirm support for Iran Nuclear Deal

January 20, 2020

On the sidelines of the Libya Summit held in the capital city of Germany, Berlin on Sunday, 19th January 2020 the President of France, Emmanuel Macron and the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reiterated their commitment to the JCPoA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) for 2015 Iran nuclear deal and has acknowledged the need ..

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Bavar-373: Iran’s new home-grown air defence system unveiled

August 23, 2019

Iran unveiled its new home-grown air defence system called Bavar-373 during a ceremony held on Iran’s ‘National Defence Industry Day’. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has ordered to add Bavar-373 to country’s missile defence network. The unveiling takes place against a backdrop of rising tensions between and Iran and United States (US) since US President Donald ..

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IAEA confirms Iran breached enriched Uranium Stockpile limit

July 3, 2019

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ atomic watchdog has confirmed that Iran has exceeded limit on amount of enriched uranium in its stockpile set out in 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. This marks the 1st major departure by Iran from unraveling agreement a year after U.S. unilaterally withdrew from Joint Comprehensive Plan ..

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India: Import of Crude from Iran and Chabahar Port Development

May 15, 2019

The sanctions waiver from the US has curtailed the Indian crude imports from Iran. But the fact that Iran was an important supplier of crude to India cannot be sidelined because: Iran is India’s third-largest oil supplier behind Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Iran was the second largest after Saudi Arabia until 2010-11. But the sanctions ..

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