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Iran Says It Can Produce Higher Enriched Uranium in Less Than Two Days
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by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
An IAEA inspector at an Iranian nuclear facility. Photo: IAEA.
Iran said on Monday it could produce higher enriched uranium within two days if the United States quit a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and six major powers, Tehran’s Arabic language al-Alam TV reported.
“If America pulls out of the deal … Iran could resume its 20 percent uranium enrichment in less than 48 hours,” Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told al-Alam TV.
Uranium refined to 20 percent fissile purity is well beyond the 5 percent normally required to fuel civilian nuclear power plants, though still well short of highly enriched, or 80-90 percent, purity needed for a nuclear bomb.
Kamalvandi said the deal — under which Iran curbed its uranium enrichment to help ensure it was for peaceful purposes only and secured an end to financial sanctions in return — is not re-negotiable, as demanded by the United States. The deal’s European signatories — Germany, Britain and France, as well as Russia and China — are committed to preserving the agreement.
