Iran announces it has exceeded JCPOA uranium stockpile limit, beginning systematic dismantling of nuclear deal constraints

Iran announced on July 1, 2019 that it had exceeded the 300 kilogram limit on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium set by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), confirmed immediately by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The breach was Iran's first formal violation of the JCPOA and came fourteen months after the Trump administration's May 2018 withdrawal from the deal and reimposition of sanctions. Iran declared it would continue breaching JCPOA limits every 60 days until the remaining European signatories (France, Germany, UK) provided meaningful economic relief from US sanctions.