{"id":65494,"date":"2015-12-15T17:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2f82407b63960bdd67417be8079ade1f"},"modified":"2015-12-15T17:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:18:59","slug":"news-story-foreign-secretary-welcomes-independent-assessment-of-iran-nuclear-capabilities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=65494","title":{"rendered":"News story: Foreign Secretary welcomes independent assessment of Iran nuclear capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has welcomed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)\u2019s final assessment of its investigation into Iran\u2019s nuclear capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Governors of the IAEA today unanimously passed a resolution which recognised that Iran has implemented all activities required of it under the Possible Military Dimensions (PMD) Road-map. This allows the IAEA\u2019s Board to close its consideration of this specific issue. <\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is an important day for our engagement with Iran. A four year investigation of the possible military dimensions of Iran\u2019s nuclear programme has come to a close, and the IAEA\u2019s focus can now shift to verifying and monitoring the historic Iran nuclear deal agreed in July.<\/p>\n<p>Full implementation of that deal, together with Iran\u2019s compliance with enhanced inspection and verification activities, is the most effective way of ensuring Iran does not pursue a military nuclear programme, thus helping to ensure regional security and allowing Iran to re-engage with the international community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We look forward to seeing Iran complete the remaining activities required of it before Implementation Day can occur and sanctions can begin to be lifted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Secretary on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PHammondMP\">@PHammondMP<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">Facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Hammond notes significance of International Atomic Energy Agency resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}