Iran Says It Is Now Enriching Uranium Beyond ‘UN Limits’

The Islamic Republic of Iran has said that the nation’s uranium enrichment is now on the high side, more than where it was during the “Iran Nuclear Deal”.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani disclosed this on Thursday.

The Iran nuclear deal was an agreement reached in 2015 between Iran and the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, China and Germany) with the European Union (EU).

Reuters reports that Iran is now enriching more uranium than Tehran did before it agreed to a nuclear deal with world powers in 2015, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday in a televised speech.

“We are enriching more uranium before the deal was reached and pressure has increased on Iran but we continue to progress,” he said.

Uranium is a very crucial element for the creation of nuclear fuel; it also serves as another source of electricity generation.

It is also used by military forces to power certain submarines as well as create nuclear weapons.

Recall that Donald Trump had said in a press briefing, that “as long as I am president of the United States, Iran will never have a nuclear weapon,” stressing that the framework behind the 2015 deal was not meaningful.

But the United Nations had criticised Trump’s position on the deal stating that a “full and effective implementation” of the plan was “key to ensuring the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme and to secure tangible economic benefit to the Iranian people.”

The UN had also blamed Iran for not abiding to the terms of the 2015 deal which placed “limits on its uranium enrichment level, as well as limits on its stockpiles of heavy water and low-enriched uranium.”