TEHRAN, Iran, Nov. 25
Trend:
The spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced the IAEA's readiness for increasing the percentage of uranium enrichment with its new centrifuge.
The Spokesperson of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi announced on Tuesday the readiness of this organization in case of the decision of the Islamic Republic to produce advanced machines at the industrial level and to increase production capacity and percentage of enrichment, Trend reports citing IRNA.
The spox also said that the bill on “strategic action” for lifting the sanctions after the failure of the JCPOA’s European parties to fulfill the country’s interests under the nuclear deal and the escalation of US sanctions and hostile measures is being studied in the Iranian Parliament.
Referring to the strategic action plan for lifting sanctions proposed in the National Security Commission of Iran Parliament, Kamalvandi said that “The National Security and Foreign Policy Commission asked the Atomic Energy Organization to comment on the technical aspects of the plan.”
"Regardless of the political aspects of this plan, the technical considerations of the plan were discussed in a meeting with the commission,” he said.
According to IRNA, the spokesman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the parliament had previously announced the approval of 5 clauses of the strategic action plan for lifting the sanctions in the commission.
On November 22, Iran's Permanent Representative to International Organizations Kazem Gharibabadi says the country will operate 174 advanced IR-M2 centrifuges at Natanz nuclear facility. Gharibabadi said the injection of uranium hexafluoride, or UF6, into the centrifuge is the final step in initiating the enrichment and separation of uranium-238 from uranium-235.