Irannews reports White House President’s reaction to the uranium enrichment told by CNN; Donald Trump has issued a warning to Iran after moving to increase uranium enrichment beyond the purity threshold reached in a landmark nuclear deal Washington pulled out of last year. Iran made the expected move last week, putting it out of compliance with the […]
Irannews reports White House President’s reaction to the uranium enrichment told by CNN;
Donald Trump has issued a warning to Iran after moving to increase uranium enrichment beyond the purity threshold reached in a landmark nuclear deal Washington pulled out of last year.
Iran made the expected move last week, putting it out of compliance with the 2015 deal originally agreed under then-US President Barack Obama and five other nations. Tehran had earlier warned it would increase uranium enrichment if the deal’s European signatories did not help ease sanctions on its banking and oil sectors.
“Iran better be careful,” Trump said on Sunday.
“Because you enrich for one reason and I won’t tell you what the reason is. But it’s no good; they better be careful,” he said before boarding Air Force One in New Jersey.
Tehran has long maintained that it is not developing a nuclear weapons program and its enrichment and research is focused on non-military uses.
President Hassan Rouhani warned as early as May that Iran would no longer abide by some of its commitments limiting the production of fissile material, due to Washington’s own withdrawal from the agreement and increased diplomatic and military pressure on Tehran.
On Sunday, Iran announced it had begun uranium enrichment past the previous limit of 3.67%. The level of uranium enrichment then surpassed 4.5% on Monday, Behrooz Kamalvandi, the spokesperson for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, told Iranian news agency ISNA.
Washington and its allies are putting more pressures on Iran due to uranium enrichment, amid intense hostility from Washington and disputes over shipping in the Persian Gulf and nearby waters.
The tensions have been increasing in the region but under sanctions there is no way to re-establish the talks between US and Iran. In 2018 US pulled out of the nuclear deal and since then Trump is increasing the sanctions against Iran.
- source : CNN, Irannews
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