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Iran began to disregard its obligations after President Trump reimposed sanctions
The International Atomic Energy Agency said, “Iran today possesses more than ten times the allowable amount of enriched uranium” under the nuclear deal.
The IAEA announced that “Iran’s enriched uranium stocks reached 2,105 kg, more than 300 kg, which was the volume agreed in 2015.”
The announcement comes after Iran allowed inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency access to one of the two suspected nuclear sites.
Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
The agency said it would sample the second site later this month.
Iran began to deliberately and publicly backtrack last year from its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal it signed with China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. This is in response to the US sanctions that President Donald Trump reimposed upon withdrawing from the agreement.
This included producing more than the allowed amount of enriched uranium, although the enrichment levels exclusively, well below those required for use in nuclear weapons.
Iran needs to produce 1,050kg of 3.67% enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon. But then he will have to become even richer by 90 percent or more, according to a US-based gun control group.
Low enriched uranium (concentrations between 3 and 5 percent) can be used to produce fuel for power plants.
Experts say that the enrichment process could take a long time if Tehran decides to do so.
Iran had said last week that it had agreed “in good faith” to allow weapons inspectors access to its nuclear facilities in order to resolve pending issues related to the issue of nuclear safeguards.
The International Atomic Energy Agency criticized Iran for failing to answer its questions about the possibility of undeclared nuclear materials and about nuclear activities at the two sites, and preventing access to them.
In its latest statement, the International Monitoring Authority said that Iran “has provided IAEA inspectors with access to the site to take environmental samples.”
He added: “The samples will be analyzed by the agency’s laboratories.”
