Newsdeck: Iran launches more advanced machines to speed up nuclear enrichment – official By Reuters
* Iran scaling back compliance after U.S. pull-out in 2018* “Big step in wrong direction” – Trump administrationIran has gradually shed commitments made under the deal with world powers since being hit with renewed U.S. sanctions that have crippled its oil exports. Germany said on Monday Iran’s announced roll-out of modernised centrifuges jeopardises the accord and called on Tehran to return to it.
“Our scientists are working on a prototype called the IR-9 that works 50 times faster than the IR-1s.” The U.N. nuclear watchdog said in September that Iran had informed the agency about making modifications to accommodate cascades – or interconnected clusters – of 164 of the IR-2m and IR-4 centrifuge. Cascades of the same size and type were scrapped under the nuclear agreement.
A brief thaw in decades of antagonism between Tehran and Washington brought about by the 2015 deal ended last year when U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord, under which Iran had agreed to rein in its disputed enrichment programme in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.Trump said the accord was flawed in Iran’s favour and wants it renegotiated. Washington has since renewed and intensified its sanctions, slashing Iran’s economically vital crude oil sales by more than 80%.
However, Iran remains far short of the enrichment level – 90 percent – seen as necessary to produce bomb-grade uranium.
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