Iran has produced at least 25 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% and 210 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20%, official spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behruz Kamalwandi said.
“According to the law, we must produce 120 kilograms with 20% enrichment, and now we have crossed the 210 kilogram mark. To date, we have produced 25 kilograms with 60% enrichment, which no other country can produce except those who possess nuclear weapons,” Kamalvandi said, quoted on the organization’s website.
In September, the IAEA reported that Iran has increased its uranium reserves, enriched more than envisioned. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or the JCPOA specifies an enrichment rate of 3.67%.
According to the report, the reserves of uranium enriched to 20% in Iran were then 84.3 kilograms (compared to 62.8 in May). And the reserves of uranium enriched to 60% are 10 kilograms (compared to 2.4 kilograms in May).
Earlier, the governments of Germany, France and the UK said they are concerned about the IAEA data that Iran has produced uranium metal enriched to 20% and significantly expanded its capacity to produce uranium enriched to 60%.
The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Iran’s actions are another deviation from the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA), but they are largely due to the lack of progress in restoring the deal.
In 2015, the US, UK, Germany, China, Russia, France and Iran signed the JCPOA, addressing Tehran’s nuclear program.
The deal involved lifting sanctions in exchange for limiting Iran’s nuclear program as a guarantor of the Islamic Republic’s non-receipt of nuclear weapons. In May 2018, former US President Donald Trump decided to unilaterally withdraw the US from the deal and reinstate tough sanctions against Iran.
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