Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that his country is about to develop more centrifugations to accelerate rates of enriching uranium for nuclear reactors.
He revealed that as of tomorrow the concerned authorities will start enriching uranium, defying initiatives to reduce restrictions of the nuclear deal beat in 2015 between Iran and five members of Unites Nations Security Council along with Germany.
The nuclear deal permits Iran to keep restricted numbers of the first generation of centrifugations in two nuclear plants.
President Rouhani assured during a speech broadcast by the state-run TV, that the Iranian experts are going to upgrade various types of centrifugations to enrich uranium in faster steps.
He assured that all restrictions imposed previously on research and development will be removed absolutely as of Friday.
Iran stresses that she enriches uranium as a fuel to run the nuclear reactors.
Rouhani pointed out that Iran will take all necessary easements to defend her rights and interests.
He depicted development of centrifugations as the third step to get rid of restrictions linked to the nuclear deal.
The deal with western powers and China led to lift economic sanctions off Iran in 2016 after Tehran approved then diminish her nuclear activities.
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The USA withdrew of the nuclear deal last year and reinstated the sanctions again on Iran.
The nuclear deal allows Iran to continue research and enrichment without accumulating the enriched uranium or some types of centrifugations.
According to the UN watchdog Iran has gone further in breaching its nuclear deal by increasing its stock of enriched uranium and refining it to greater purity than allowed.
According to a quarterly report released on Friday (August 30) by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Tehran is progressively backing out of the Iran nuclear deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
This is in retaliation against Washington's withdrawal from the deal and the subsequent renewal of sanctions that have weakened Iranian oil sales.
The IAEA report said Iran was enriching uranium to 4.5% purity with a stockpile of 241.6 kg of enriched uranium - up from 213.5 kg in July. The limit agreed upon in the Iran nuclear deal of 2015 was 202.8 kg with a fissile purity of 3.67%.
However, Tehran's stock is still a fraction of the tonnes it possessed before the deal and at a much lower enrichment level than the 20% it once was.
A level of 90% is required to make nuclear weapons.
This means these breaches have not made much difference to the time required to create a nuclear bomb. The JCPOA extended that time to about a year from the original time frame of just a few months.
Iran has threatened to accelerate the progress after September 6th which it says could include enriching to 20% or restarting centrifuges that enrich uranium.
US President Donald Trump has offered to hold talks with the country but Tehran demands relief from Washington-imposed sanctions before this happens.
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