This is a further step away from the agreement signed in 2015 whereby the Islamic Republic committed to use only first-generation (IR-1) centrifuges
Iran has notified the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its intention to install two new cascades of state-of-the-art IR-6 centrifuges to accelerate uranium enrichment at its underground plant in Natanz. This is a further step away from the agreement signed in 2015 whereby the Islamic Republic committed to use only first-generation (IR-1) centrifuges. The Iranians are distancing themselves from a pact that is a dead letter every day since Donald Trump decided to abandon it and re-impose sanctions on Tehran.
Although the Americans were the first to violate the agreement with their unilateral exit in 2018, all the pressure fell on the Iranians and the IAEA passed a resolution criticizing Iran for failing to explain traces of uranium in three undeclared sites. Only Russia and China opposed this measure, which Tehran considered “unreasonable”.
Iran sees the hand of Israel and its intelligence behind the IAEA reports and ordered the disconnection of two of the security cameras installed by the international organization. Rafael Grossi, director of the IAEA, assured that not two, but 27 cameras have been removed and described this Iranian decision as a “serious challenge” as the researchers will monitor the atomic activity in the Iranian plants in three or four weeks.
From within the Islamic Republic, they are insisting that these renunciations are reversible, that they will be reversed once Joe Biden lifts the sanctions, and that his nuclear program has civilian purposes. Alarms have been raised in the West, however, when they learned that Tehran could already have achieved a 60 percent enrichment rate, closer to the 90 percent needed to produce nuclear weapons. The 2015 accord managed to get the Iranians to freeze this enrichment in exchange for the end of the sanctions, but Trump decided to break it and that’s where the problems started again.
Source: La Verdad
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