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will continue to enrich uranium to 20% even if the 2015 nuclear deal is revived and sanctions are lifted, its nuclear chief said Friday, according to Iranian news reports.
"(Uranium) enrichment... continues [at present] with a maximum ceiling of 60%, which led Westerners to rush to negotiations, and it will continue with the lifting of sanctions by both 20% and 5%," Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, was quoted saying.
The 2015 JCPOA limits enrichment to 3.67%, but since the US withdrew from the accord in 2018, Iran has been openly breaching its terms, stockpiling mounting quantities of 60%-enriched uranium. It has said it is capable of enriching to 90% — weapons-grade. Before the deal took effect, it was enriching to 20%.
Eslami’s comments were surprising since, according to diplomats quoted by Rooters 10 days ago, the draft outline of the revived deal includes a series of steps for all parties to take following its final approval, starting with Iran suspending enrichment of uranium above 5%.
The first phase would also reportedly include the unfreezing of some $7 billion in Iranian funds stuck in South Korean banks under US sanctions, as well as the release of Western prisoners held in Iran.
Eventually, Iran would return to core nuclear limits like the 3.67% cap on enrichment purity, the diplomats said, and sanctions would begin to be waived.
Eslami also warned Friday that Iran can resume production of highly enriched uranium "at any moment" if a deal was agreed but the US again pulled out of it.
Eslami was speaking as talks in Vienna on bringing Washington back into the 2015 agreement reached a critical stage.
The 3.67% limit for uranium enrichment set in the 2015 deal was sufficient for Iran’s power generation needs although not for some other civilian uses, such as the production of medical isotopes.
After then-US president Donald Trump
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abandoned the agreement and reimposed crippling sanctions, Iran responded by producing uranium enriched to 60%, a level that has sparked Western concern although it still falls short of weapons grade.
Iran credits its response with bringing US President Joe
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’s administration back to the negotiating table for on-off talks that have now lasted 10 months.
"Enrichment can be done at any moment when [officials] decide or there is the will for it," Eslami said on his organization’s website.
"If they [the US] do not fulfill their obligations, we will return to the previous situation.
"Enrichment is in place in the country with a maximum ceiling of 60 percent and this brought the West to negotiations."