Iran Misses Deadline to Renew Nuclear Monitoring Pact
- Agreement preserves data captured at Iranian nuclear sites
- Failure to extend it would cloud talks on reviving 2015 deal
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Iran missed a deadline to renew its temporary atomic-monitoring pact with international inspectors, raising the prospect that it could delete sensitive enrichment information and complicating broader negotiations in Vienna to revive its nuclear accord with world powers.
Tehran’s government has yet to inform monitors whether it will renew the agreement after earlier saying it would make a decision following the pact’s expiration at midnight on Thursday. Iran let a previous deadline lapse by 24 hours last month before agreeing to extend the pact, which preserves video and enrichment data captured at Iranian nuclear installations.