US releases frozen funds to Iran
(VOVworld)-The United States has taken steps to release a 450 million USD installment of frozen Iranian funds following a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verifying that Tehran is living up to its part of a landmark nuclear pact with world powers.
Speaking to the press, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said that all sides have kept the commitments made under the agreement signed last November. In the latest report released a day earlier, IAEA confirmed that Iran has complied with temporary commitments on its nuclear program singed with the P5+1 group including the United States, France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia. The report also showed that Iran had diluted half of its uranium gas refined to a 20 percent fissile purity.