Conservative MP Robert Largan this week voiced concern about Iran’s “continued non-compliance” to the nuclear deal during Foreign Office Questions in Parliament.
Mr Largan said in a question to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab: “The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed that Iran is building an underground nuclear facility, and that its enriched uranium stockpiles are now more than 12 times the limit set out in the 2015 nuclear deal”.
He underlined: “Given those facts, will the Minister confirm to the House that in the event of continued non-compliance by the Iranian regime, the UK is prepared to consider sanctions?”
Foreign Secretary Raab said in his response that he was in Berlin this week “for an E3 meeting with my French and German counterparts on exactly that issue, and on how we are taking forward accountability within the scope of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)”.
He emphasised: “More than 200 EU sanctions are listed in place against Iran, and with our E3 partners we are continuing the JCPOA to maintain and constrain Iran’s nuclear programme as best we can. We are looking to re-engage with the new US Administration, to see how we can strengthen that even further”.
