聯合國：伊朗遵守了伊核協議限制條款

The United Nations atomic watchdog says Iran is complying with restrictions on its nuclear program in accord with the 2015 international agreement.

The International Atomic Energy Agency report Thursday marks the inspectors' first assessment since President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the pact.

The IAEA said Tehran is staying within limits on the level to which it can enrich uranium, the size of its stock of enriched uranium and other strictures.

But the U.N. agency chided Iran for limiting "complementary access" inspections.

The U.N. assessment came as the United States imposed new sanctions on Iran in an effort to force the Islamic Republic back to the bargaining table to negotiate new terms of the nuclear agreement, curb its ballistic missile tests and end its military advances in the Middle East.

In the coming months, the United States says it will reimpose sanctions it and other countries dropped when Tehran agreed to restrain its nuclear program, measures that hobbled the Iranian economy. But the five other signatories to the Iran nuclear accord — Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia — all have said they continue to support the deal.聯合國的國際原子能機構說，伊朗遵守了2015年簽署的國際協議中有關限制其核活動的條款。

國際原子能機構星期四的報告是川普總統宣佈美國退出伊核協議以來覈查人員對伊朗核項目的第一次評估。

國際原子能機構說，伊朗在濃縮鈾的數量、儲存以及其它相關核活動都在伊核協議規定的最高限以下。

但是國際原子能機構批評伊朗在允許額外核查方面進行了限制。

國際原子能機構公佈評估伊朗核活動的報告之際，美國恢復了對伊朗的制裁，爭取迫使伊朗重回談判桌，達成新的核協議，包括限制其導彈試驗和終止在中東地區的軍事活動。

美國說，在今後數月內，將逐步恢復伊朗同意限制其核活動後暫停的制裁。制裁對伊朗經濟造成嚴重影響。但是簽署伊核協議的其它5個國家，英國、法國、德國、中國和俄羅斯都說他們繼續支持伊核協議。