In recent weeks, Iran has further intensified its uranium enrichment activity at its Fordow underground plant. This was stated on Saturday by a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Iranian authorities themselves confirmed it. In the power plant located north-east of the city of Qom, in the basement of a former base of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the enrichment of uranium to 20 percent would have been started. Well above the 3.67 percent limit allowed by the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal. Yes, that Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed in 2015 by Tehran and six other world powers – the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, Germany – then unilaterally abandoned by Donald Trump in 2018 when he reintroduced sanctions. Since then, the Islamic Republic has started a gradual disengagement from the agreement, starting to enrich uranium beyond the permitted levels.
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According to Behruz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, the Iranian authorities had also informed the IAEA of their intention to take that step two weeks ago. Affirming that he no longer wants to respect the terms of the old agreement, with all due respect to the negotiations to bring the United States back into the agreement restarted by the Biden administration already at the beginning of his term. Those meetings so far have not yielded results. According to the IAEA report, the increase in enrichment is not new: elsewhere Iran is already enriching its uranium by up to 60 percent, well above the 20 percent it reached before 2015. Of course, we are still far below the 90 percent needed to make them powerful weapons. But the move seems like yet another step in an escalation, which comes just as the talks seem to have gotten bogged down and the Western powers are launching their ultimatums.
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“We have found unity with our allies and partners in Europe and around the world to reverse our isolation; now it is Iran that is isolated and will remain so until it returns to the nuclear deal abandoned by my predecessor with no plan for it. what could replace it “he said just the day before yesterday Joe Biden. “Last month more than 30 countries joined us to condemn Iran’s lack of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency on its past nuclear activities. My administration will continue to increase diplomatic pressure and economic until Iran is ready to return to observe the 2015 agreement, as we remain willing to do “the American president insisted.
The Iranian Foreign Minister will be in Italy in the next few hours Hossein Amir-Abdullahian who specified that, among the main objectives of the visit, was the deepening of bilateral relations, especially in the fields of politics, economy and trade. An interview with the premier is scheduled Mario Draghi, with the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and a visit to the Vatican.