GENEVA — Iran has passed the 3.67% uranium enrichment cap set by its landmark 2015 nuclear deal and may enrich at even higher levels, the spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said on Monday according to the IRIB news agency. In a separate report, Kamalvandi told state-run Iranian Students News Agency that the country reached enrichment levels of 4.5% purity earlier on Monday, which meets the needs of Iran’s nuclear reactors. Germany, one of the six countries that struck the nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, along with France, Britain, Russia, China and U.S (who has since withdrawn from the agreement), has stated that Iran must be persuaded otherwise. The remaining European signatories to the nuclear deal should act quickly to fulfill their promises because Iran will continue reducing its commitments to the deal until it achieves a result, Kamalvandi said, according to IRIB. Germany, France, Britain, Russia and China are trying to keep the deal alive amid heightened tension between the U.S. and Iran.

Source: National Post July 08, 2019 09:22 UTC