‘Iran to meet N-timetable’

TOKYO: Iran will fulfill its commitments under the July nuclear agreement with major powers in time to have sanctions, that have crippled its economy, lifted by the end of the year, its atomic energy chief said on Thursday.
President Hassan Rouhani reaffirmed last week he expected sanctions to be lifted by year-end, paving the way for the return of the biggest economy to the global trading and financial system since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Iran has begun work to remove uranium enrichment centrifuges as part of the landmark agreement, Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Oranisation of Iran announced this week.
"Whatever the president says we will accomplish," Salehi told Reuters after a speech on Iran´s nuclear future to diplomats and energy executives in Tokyo.