Iran has deepened a major breach of its 2015 nuclear deal, enriching uranium with a growing number of advanced centrifuge installations in an underground plant while opposing the new U.S. administration on saving its would like.
Tehran has recently broken acceleration on the deal, putting pressure on US President Joe Biden as both sides say they are willing to bounce back on the bad deal. grind if the other side moves first.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will visit one of the country’s nuclear sites
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Iran began its crackdown in 2019 in response to Washington’s withdrawal in 2018 by then – President Donald Trump and the reshuffle of U.S. economic sanctions against Tehran raised under the agreement.
The consensus states that Iran can only extract uranium at its main enrichment site – an underground plant at Natanz – with first-generation IR-1 centrifuges. Last year, Iran began enriching there with a ban, or browser, of much more efficient IR-2m devices and in December, they said it would install three more.
“Iran has completed one of these three waterfalls, containing 174 IR-2m centrifuges, and, on January 30, 2021, Iran began feeding the waterfall with UF6,” the International Atomic Energy Agency said. national in a report received by Reuters on Tuesday. , referring to the uranium hexafluoride feedstock.
Atomic enrichment facilities Iran Natanz nuclear power plant
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The IAEA later confirmed that the Islamic Republic had begun to enrich itself with the second ban.
Tehran is also pushing ahead with the installation of more advanced centrifuges, the report said. Of the two remaining waterfalls of IR-2m devices, installation of one had begun while installation of the other was “near completion”, he said.
Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, Kazem Gharibabadi, said on Twitter Tehran had also started installing IR-6 centrifuges at Fordow, a site dug into a mountain where Iran has begun enriching uranium to the purity 20 % last achieved before 2015 contract. IAEA report did not comment.
Iran nuclear site at Fordow
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Iran denies any intention to impose enrichment on arms. The nuclear treaty sets a limit of 3.67% enrichment purity, which is suitable for the realization of civilian nuclear energy and far below the 90% that is at the military level.