May 2 was the deadline which had been set by the U.S. Administration for six  countries to use its exemption for imports of Iran’s oil and the deadline was considered by many analysts and experts as an uncalculated, hurriedly and unwise move. 

The European Union rejected a 60-day ultimatum Iran has issued for the JCPOA parties to honor their commitments, urging Tehran to continue to fully honor the 2015 nuclear deal.

An Iranian deputy foreign minister said although the country’s move to roll back some of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal is not tantamount to withdrawal from the agreement, Tehran has put a piecemeal pullout from the JCPOA on its agenda.

“This will not be in favor of Europeans if they do not pay attention to the set 60-day deadline by Iran,” Senior Iranian Lawmaker and a member of Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Wednesday.

The irresponsible policies of the US government have led to an ‘unacceptable situation’ in which the multilateral pact on Iran’s nuclear program may fail, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.

Iran has revealed countermeasures to US’ withdrawal from the nuclear deal, removing restrictions on storage of heavy water and enriched uranium, and giving the five remaining parties to JCPOA 60 days before reducing further commitments to the agreement.

Rudkhan Castle is a brick and stone medieval castle in Iran. It is 30 km away from the city of Fuman and just nearby its hiking starting point, lays the village of Rudkhan. To reach the castle, there are hundreds of stairs to climb and that is one of the reasons this castle is also known as “The Thousand Step Castle”.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the remaining signatories of the Nuclear Deal, officially known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), to change the deal’s status.

The American news publication “Foreign Policy” which is officially the think-tank for American political elites has recently published an article which had been written by two Israeli analysts and professors at Tel Aviv University where they analyzed Iran’s progresses in the advanced space technologies and had assessed it as a “threat” more serious than what Washington perceives.

American former government official Richard A. Clarke discussed the risks of US-Iranian military conflict, warning Trump and Congress that the US and its allies can be hurt badly by Iran.