Post by Andrei Tchentchik on Jan 24, 2020 18:04:42 GMT 2
(.#B.026).- Iran has sharply accelerated uranium production, Nov. 4, 2019.
Iran has sharply accelerated uranium production, Nov. 4, 2019.
TEHRAN (AFP) Iran has announced on November 4, 2019, have significantly accelerated in two months its pace of production of low-enriched uranium on the eve of the expected announcement of a further reduction of its commitments made in 2015 in the framework of the Vienna Agreement on its nuclear program.
The Islamic Republic now produces five kilograms of enriched uranium per day, Ali Akbar Saléhi, vice-president of the Islamic Republic and head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA), told state television on state television. This figure represents more than 10 times the level of production at the beginning of September 2019.
RESPONSE
By an agreement reached in Vienna in July 2015 with the 5 + 1 Group (China, United States, France, Great Britain, Russia and Germany), Tehran agreed to drastically reduce its nuclear activities - to guarantee their exclusively civilian character - in exchange for lifting part of the international sanctions asphyxiating its economy.
In response to the withdrawal of the United States from this pact in May 2018 and the reinstatement of heavy US sanctions, the Islamic Republic has since May 2019 returned to some of its commitments.
It produces enriched uranium at a rate higher than the 3.67% limit set by the 2015 agreement and no longer meets the 300-kilogram limit imposed on its uranium stocks.
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Iran has sharply accelerated uranium production, Nov. 4, 2019.
TEHRAN (AFP) Iran has announced on November 4, 2019, have significantly accelerated in two months its pace of production of low-enriched uranium on the eve of the expected announcement of a further reduction of its commitments made in 2015 in the framework of the Vienna Agreement on its nuclear program.
The Islamic Republic now produces five kilograms of enriched uranium per day, Ali Akbar Saléhi, vice-president of the Islamic Republic and head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA), told state television on state television. This figure represents more than 10 times the level of production at the beginning of September 2019.
RESPONSE
By an agreement reached in Vienna in July 2015 with the 5 + 1 Group (China, United States, France, Great Britain, Russia and Germany), Tehran agreed to drastically reduce its nuclear activities - to guarantee their exclusively civilian character - in exchange for lifting part of the international sanctions asphyxiating its economy.
In response to the withdrawal of the United States from this pact in May 2018 and the reinstatement of heavy US sanctions, the Islamic Republic has since May 2019 returned to some of its commitments.
It produces enriched uranium at a rate higher than the 3.67% limit set by the 2015 agreement and no longer meets the 300-kilogram limit imposed on its uranium stocks.
F I N.
