European Union foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting on Friday in Brussels to discuss ways to try to save the Iran nuclear deal, two diplomats said. A third diplomat said the meeting would start at 1400 CET. Officially, the agenda has yet to be agreed, but one of the envoys said EU ministers would consider their response to Irans decision to abandon limitations on enriching uranium. Iran announced on Sunday that it would lift limitations on uranium enrichment, taking a further step back from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China. Tehran said it would continue to cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog. Its decision followed a US drone strike last week that killed Qassem Soleimani, one of Irans top military commanders. "We must be ready to react to Irans breaches of the nuclear deal," one of the EU diplomats said. Asked if this could mean triggering a mechanism that moves closer towards reimposing international sanctions on Tehran, the envoy said: "It is increasingly likely, but not yet decided. Friday will be key." Iran says its violations have been driven by the United States withdrawal from the deal in 2018 and its reimposition of sanctions that have strangled Tehrans oil exports. Iran has previously said it would return to compliance if Washington did so. President Donald Trump on Monday repeated his insistence that Iran will not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon, amid mounting tension over Soleimanis assassination. Writing in all-caps, the US leader tweeted: "IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!" Trumps tweet did not add any details about steps he was considering to prevent Iran from reviving its nuclear program. Iran has always denied any military dimension to its nuclear project. The UN atomic watchdog acknowledged on Monday Iran’s latest announcement on walking away, though reversibly, from its nuclear containment deal with major powers and said it would report any developments promptly to its member states. The International Atomic Energy Agency is policing the landmark 2015 pact that placed restrictions on Tehran’s nuclear activities in exchange for lifting international sanctions against the Islamic Republic. That deal has, however, been fraying since the US pullout and crippling economic sanctions on Tehran. The Islamic Republic has been responding since then by breaching the deal’s restrictions step by step. Its latest announcement came on Sunday. “IAEA inspectors continue to carry out verification and monitoring activities in the country,” the Vienna-based agency said in a statement. “The IAEA will keep its member states informed of any developments in this regard in a timely manner as appropriate.” Iran has already breached many of the deal’s restrictions, including on the fissile purity to which it enriches uranium, its stock of enriched uranium, which models of centrifuge it enriches uranium with and where it enriches uranium. It has, however, not gone far over the level of purity allowed – the deal sets a limit of 3.67% and Iran has stayed around 4.5% in recent months, well below the 20% it reached before the deal and the roughly 90% that is bomb-grade. “The IAEA is aware of Iran’s announcement regarding a fifth step in reducing its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),” the IAEA statement said, referring to the deal by its official name. “The IAEA notes that the (Iranian) government statement also said that Iran’s cooperation with the agency will continue as before.”