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The Iranian Bushehr nuclear power plant
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Iran has not yet provided the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with a sufficient explanation for the discovery of uranium particles in a facility that has not been declared a nuclear site.
The agency also described Iran's declarations about the discovery of nuclear material in an undeclared facility in the country as "not credible".
In addition, the country continues to enrich uranium and now has twelve times the amount allowed in the nuclear agreement.
That comes from the quarterly report of the IAEA.
Since the United States withdrew from the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran has continued to enrich uranium.
The country now has more than 2,400 kilograms of enriched uranium, according to the report.
In the nuclear agreement, Tehran agreed to comply with an upper limit of around 200 kilograms of pure uranium.
After the US withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018, Iran no longer fulfills all the requirements of the agreement.
The IAEA called for a comprehensive declaration from Iran, which had committed itself to transparency about its nuclear program in the Vienna Agreement of 2015.
The agreement is intended to prevent the country ruled by Shiite clerics from building an atomic bomb.
The report does not provide any information on the location of the facility in question with the uranium particles.
According to information from diplomatic circles, it could be in the Turkusabad district of Tehran.
The site had been designated by Israel as a suspected site for secret nuclear activity.
The chemical signature of the atomic traces discovered at the site last year corresponded to that of traces on centrifuges that Iran imported from its neighboring country Pakistan, a nuclear power, the report said.
The agency emphasized this as an unresolved issue after Iran recently granted IAEA inspectors access to two additional locations after a long dispute.
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