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Nuclear facilities in Natanz.
The Iranian Congress passed a new law that would stop allowing the UN to monitor its nuclear facilities and speed up the process of its uranium enrichment plan if existing UN sanctions are not lifted within two months. In this way, Iran can significantly increase the abundance of uranium enrichment from 3.67% established in the 2015 nuclear deal to 20%.
Iranian President Rouhani opposes the application of the law.
This bill was passed after the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s top nuclear scientist. Fahrizad played an important role in Iran’s nuclear program. He was killed near the capital, Tehran, last Friday. Iranian authorities believe that Israel and the exiled opposition camp fired at him with remote weapons. Israel has not publicly responded to the accusations.
The Iranian government emphasized that its nuclear activities are completely peaceful, but was once subjected to severe international sanctions to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.
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President Rouhani voiced his opposition to the bill.
What does this new law represent?
This new bill was proposed on behalf of the Iranian Guardianship Council. Iran will give the European Union signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal a two-month deadline, relax sanctions on Iran’s oil and financial industries, and the Trump administration will withdraw from the nuclear deal in 2018.
If sanctions are not relaxed before the deadline, the government will increase the abundance of uranium enrichment to 20% and deploy advanced centrifuges at Natanz and Fordow to accomplish this task.
Iran will also prohibit UN inspectors from inspecting these facilities.
Iran’s Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday: “Today members of Congress formally wrote to the president to implement the new law.”
Before the approval of the new law, President Rouhani declared that the government would not agree with the legislation and said it was “damaging diplomacy”.
US President Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement signed by several countries in 2015 in May 2018 and imposed severe economic sanctions on Tehran.
Biden, who is about to take office, said it will lead the United States back to the agreement signed during the Obama era. If Iran can strictly implement the nuclear deal, sanctions can relax.
Biden is expected to be sworn in as president of the United States on January 20 next year, telling the New York Times that developing nuclear capabilities is the scariest thing.
In July 2019, Iran violated the agreement on the upper uranium enrichment limit of 3.67% and raised it to 4.5%.
Generally speaking, 3% to 5% of low-abundance enriched uranium can be used as fuel for nuclear power, and the abundance of weapons-grade uranium is 90% or more.
Outsiders have suspected that Iran used its nuclear program as a cover, planned to develop a nuclear bomb, and prompted sanctions imposed by Europe, the United States and the United Nations in 2010.
The 2015 agreement hopes that the nuclear program can be restricted and, if verifiable, Iran will be traded for the relaxation of sanctions.
