31.   According to newspaper reports, the review committee has recommended scrapping the deal.

32.   At a Moscow summit in May, President Bill Clinton failed to persuade President Boris Yeltsin to scrap the deal.

33.   Before Erbakan came to power, authorities in his Welfare Party said the deal should be scrapped.

34.   Before Erbakan came to power, Welfare authorities had been saying that the deal should be scrapped.

35.   But Pyongyang has said it is prepared to scrap the deal rather than accept South Korean reactors.

36.   Earlier, Republican leaders who took over Congress in November threatened to cut off crucial US aid to Moscow if it did not scrap the nuclear deal with Iran.

37.   The United States, accusing Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, pressured Moscow last year to scrap the deal, but to no avail.

38.   The US has been trying to convince Russia to scrap the deal fearing that Iran could use the technology to develop nuclear weapons.

39.   The United States, accusing Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, has unsuccessfully pressured Russia to scrap the deal.

40.   The United States, which accuses Iran of supporting terrorism, has denounced the accord and urged Turkey to scrap the deal.