(Washington Post) Iran made good on recent threats Thursday and announced that it will resume building equipment essential for a nuclear weapons program, despite its agreement with three major European powers. The decision does not violate international treaties that allow Tehran to make centrifuge parts for peaceful nuclear energy. But the move does break an agreement Iran signed with France, Britain, and Germany, in which it promised to suspend nuclear efforts as a goodwill gesture toward earning trade incentives with the EU.
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