(ANSA) - TEHRAN, APRIL 13 - Iran has started the enrichment of uranium to 60% in the Natanz nuclear plant: this was announced by Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Araghchi said he communicated the Iranian decision in a letter sent to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea).
The deputy minister arrived in Vienna a few hours ago to participate in a new meeting of the joint committee of the 2015 nuclear agreement, which includes Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China and which is discussing the possibility of a US return to the agreement. the administration of then President Donald Trump left in 2018.
On Saturday, Iran announced that it had started a new chain of 164 IR-6 centrifuges at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant and that it had begun testing IR-9 centrifuges which are expected to enrich uranium 50 times faster than those of first generation.
The day after an accident, which Tehran attributed to a small explosion caused by a "sabotage" of Israel, partially damaged the plant.
(HANDLE).
