Vienna: Iran has reported new technological advances in uranium enrichment over the weekend as it advances its nuclear program with world powers stalled talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Tehran “Feeding… a cascade of… centrifuge” was introduced at the recently upgraded Fordow fuel enrichment plant.
The technologies facilitate the process and make it easier for Iran to switch to a different level of uranium enrichment.
In his latest report, the Director-General of the United Nations Sentinel Rafael Mariano Grosic Said that the changes were verified at the plant under mountains south of the Iranian capital.
In January 2021, Iran said it was working to enrich uranium in Fordow to 20 percent, significantly higher than the 3.67 percent agreed under the 2015 deal.
Several months later—with the 90 percent enrichment needed to build an atomic bomb—another Iranian nuclear site reached 60 percent enrichment.
Tehran has always denied calls for nuclear weapons.
The United States pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump, which began reimposing sanctions on Tehran, prompting the latter to walk away from several nuclear commitments made under the agreement.
Iran has held direct talks with the remaining parties to the deal – and indirect talks with the United States – to restore the deal, but talks have been at a standstill since March.
The nuclear deal will be on the agenda for US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel on Tuesday and Saudi Arabia on Friday.
“My administration will continue to increase diplomatic and economic pressure until Iran is ready to comply with the 2015 nuclear deal, as I am prepared to do,” Biden wrote in the Washington Post on Saturday.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Tehran “Feeding… a cascade of… centrifuge” was introduced at the recently upgraded Fordow fuel enrichment plant.
The technologies facilitate the process and make it easier for Iran to switch to a different level of uranium enrichment.
In his latest report, the Director-General of the United Nations Sentinel Rafael Mariano Grosic Said that the changes were verified at the plant under mountains south of the Iranian capital.
In January 2021, Iran said it was working to enrich uranium in Fordow to 20 percent, significantly higher than the 3.67 percent agreed under the 2015 deal.
Several months later—with the 90 percent enrichment needed to build an atomic bomb—another Iranian nuclear site reached 60 percent enrichment.
Tehran has always denied calls for nuclear weapons.
The United States pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump, which began reimposing sanctions on Tehran, prompting the latter to walk away from several nuclear commitments made under the agreement.
Iran has held direct talks with the remaining parties to the deal – and indirect talks with the United States – to restore the deal, but talks have been at a standstill since March.
The nuclear deal will be on the agenda for US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel on Tuesday and Saudi Arabia on Friday.
“My administration will continue to increase diplomatic and economic pressure until Iran is ready to comply with the 2015 nuclear deal, as I am prepared to do,” Biden wrote in the Washington Post on Saturday.