The first cascade it installed recently was composed of 174 IR-2m machines, according to Reuters.
Iran’s envoy to the UN nuclear watchdog confirmed on Tuesday the installation of the second batch of advanced centrifuges at Natanz.
“Thanks to our diligent nuclear scientists, two cascades of 348 IR2m centrifuges with almost 4 times the capacity of IR1 are now running… successfully in Natanz,” Kazem Gharibabadi said on Twitter. “Installation of 2 cascades of IR6 centrifuges has also been started in Fordo. There’s more to come soon.”
Thanks to our diligent nuclear scientists, two cascades of 348 IR2m centrifuges with almost 4 times the capacity of IR1 are now running with UF6 successfully in Natanz. Installation of 2 cascades of IR6 centrifuges has also been started in Fordow. There s more to come soon.
Will the US rejoining the Iran nuclear deal be harmful or beneficial?
Will the US rejoining the Iran nuclear deal be harmful or beneficial?
A “clean return” without ironclad new provisions that strengthen and lengthen the JCPOA will diminish U.S. clout and destabilize the Middle East.
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Signatures on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement with Iran. On the top left side is Persian handwriting by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. July 14, 2015. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
(February 2, 2021 / JISS) One of presidential candidate Joe Biden’s major election promises was a U.S. return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA), a multilaterally negotiated agreement regarding which former President Barack Obama was enthusiastic, but from which his successor President Trump withdrew in 2018.
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Chief of Iran s Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Salami speaks at a pro-government rally in Tehran, Iran, Novembr 25, 2019. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps said Sunday the Islamic Republic no longer needs an agreement with world powers on its nuclear program, dismissing efforts to save an unraveling 2015 deal regulating its activities, according to the semi-official Fars News agency.
“Today, we have come to a point that we have really grown needless of the nuclear deal and we have understood that we should prioritize efforts to become needless of sanctions removal rather than staying in need of the removal of embargoes,” Hossein Salami told a gathering of volunteer militia forces in Tehran, Fars reported, in an English translation of his remarks.
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Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)
Iran warned on Monday that the US can’t return to the 2015 nuclear deal just by again signing the agreement, but rather must first remove all of the sanctions it put on the country after it withdrew from the treaty.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said at a press conference in Tehran that Iran won’t reverse any of the steps it has taken away from the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action until its demands are met, Bloomberg reported
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In this April 9, 2018 photo, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani listens to explanations on new nuclear achievements at a ceremony to mark National Nuclear Day, in Tehran, Iran. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that Iran was currently months away from being able to produce enough material to build a nuclear weapon. And, he said, that timeframe could be reduced to “a matter of weeks” if Tehran further violates restrictions it agreed to under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
“The time that it would take Iran to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon is down to, we think, a few months,” Blinken said, noting that he was relying on public reports and not new intelligence.