Iran is still sticking to the 2015 nuclear accord, a UN atomic watchdog report showed Thursday, four months ahead of US President Donald Trump’s deadline to fix its “disastrous flaws”.
The International Atomic Energy Agency document, the ninth since the deal came into force in January 2016, showed Iran complying with the accord’s key parameters.
The number of centrifuges to enrich uranium was below the agreed level of 5,060, while Iran’s total stockpile of low-enriched uranium “has not exceeded 300 kg”, said the report seen by AFP.
Uranium when enriched to high purities can be used in a nuclear weapon. At low purities it can be used for peaceful applications such as power generation—Iran’s stated aim.
The volume of heavy water, a reactor coolant, remained below the agreed maximum of 130 tonnes throughout the past three months.
Iran has inched above that ceiling twice since the accord took effect. It removed and rendered inoperable the core of the Arak reactor, which could in theory have produced weapons-grade plutonium, before the accord entered into force.