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Iran informs IAEA: We will increase uranium enrichment to 20% - Walla! News

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For the first time since the nuclear agreement was signed with the superpowers in 2015, the country decided to raise the level of enrichment, having already exceeded the permitted 3.67% slightly. The latest move could torpedo the efforts of U.S. President-elect Biden to signal his intention to return to the agreement


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Iran informs IAEA: We will increase uranium enrichment to 20%

For the first time since the nuclear agreement was signed with the superpowers in 2015, the country decided to raise the level of enrichment, having already exceeded the permitted 3.67% slightly.

The latest move could torpedo the efforts of U.S. President-elect Biden to signal his intention to return to the agreement

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Friday, 01 January 2021, 22:17

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In video: IAEA chairman estimates that a new agreement will be needed to revive the nuclear deal with Iran (Photo: Reuters)

Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it will enrich uranium to 20%, the agency said today (Friday). This is the level of enrichment reached by the country before the signing of the nuclear agreement with the powers in 2015. The



announcement follows violations of Iran's agreement. since retired from the United States and charged anew sanctions against the country in -2019. step is one of many that appear in a new law enacted in Iran last month, after the elimination of Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fhrizadh.



Recently, tension between the United States and Iran, towards the end of President Donald Trump Last month's assassination of Fahrizadeh, who is considered the father of Tehran's military nuclear program, was seen as an attempt by the United States and Israel to prevent the Biden government from returning to the nuclear deal.

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Another step in the breach of the nuclear deal, Iran (Photo: Reuters)

Recent moves by Iran could torpedo the efforts of US President-elect Joe Biden to return to the nuclear deal.

Biden, who will enter the White House on January 20, said the United States would return to the agreement "if Iran regains full compliance."

After Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions on Iran, it responded by violating most of its commitments.

Tehran claims it can lift its response measures quickly if Washington removes the sanctions.



The IAEA has announced that it does not know the date of the enrichment, which will take place at the Purdue nuclear facility. In an underground facility in Natanz, contrary to the restrictions of the agreement that allows it to enrich uranium in first-generation centrifuges only,



Iran's enriched uranium reservoir has already reached 2.4 tons, 12 times the threshold set by the agreement, but still well below the eight tons it had before signing it. Enriches uranium at 4.5%, above 3.67% set by the agreement, but less than 20% before it.To develop nuclear weapons - something Iran denies it ever intended to do - 90% uranium must be enriched.

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