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		</div><p>The Trump administration has again told Congress that Iran is complying with the nuclear deal, but insisted Tehran would face consequences for breaching &#8220;the spirit&#8221; of the agreement.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump, who attacked the 2015 pact as a candidate, gave himself more time to decide whether to end it or let it stand. Instead, senior Trump administration officials sought to emphasise their deep concerns about Iran&#8217;s non-nuclear behaviour and vowed that those transgressions will not go unpunished.</p>
<p>In a shift from Mr Trump&#8217;s previous threat to &#8220;rip up&#8221; the deal, officials said the administration was working with US allies to try to fix its flaws, including the expiration of some nuclear restrictions after a decade or more. The officials also said the US would slap Tehran with new sanctions penalising it for developing ballistic missiles and other activity.</p>
<p>Mr Trump, secretary of state Rex Tillerson and &#8220;the entire administration judge that Iran is unquestionably in default of the spirit&#8221; of the agreement, one official said. That assessment carries no legal force, while Mr Trump&#8217;s certification that Iran is technically complying clears the way for sanctions to remain lifted.</p>
<p>The certification is a quarterly requirement, and Mr Trump first told Congress in April that Iran was indeed complying, while announcing new sanctions for non-nuclear behaviour to show there was no softening of his stance toward the Islamic Republic. &#8220;We receive contradictory signals,&#8221; Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday at the Council on Foreign Relations before the decision was announced.</p>
<p>&#8220;So we don&#8217;t know which one to interpret in what way.&#8221; For Mr Trump, a vocal critic of the deal, the obligation to report to Congress on Iran&#8217;s conformity has created an unwelcome headache every three months. Still undecided about whether to withdraw from the deal, he must either vouch for Tehran&#8217;s compliance or try to claim Iran is breaching it &#8211; even though the International Atomic Energy Agency that monitors the pact says it is not.</p>
<p>Under the deal struck by President Barack Obama and other world leaders, Iran agreed to roll back its nuclear programme &#8211; long suspected of being aimed at developing atomic weapons &#8211; in return for billions of dollars in sanctions relief. The deal does not address global concerns about Iran&#8217;s non-nuclear activities, but also does not prevent the US and others from punishing Iran for those activities.</p>
<p>Iran remains on the US State Department&#8217;s list of state sponsors of terrorism for its support of anti-Israel groups.</p>
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