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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on August 16 he hoped that Iran would not quit the agreement Iran reached in 2015 with world powers to curb Tehran’s nuclear work in return for the lifting of most sanctions.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said this week that Iran could abandon the deal “within hours” if the United States imposed any more new sanctions..

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