“The process to produce enriched uranium at % started at Shahid Alimohammadi (Fordo) enrichment complex ”, located at 120 kilometers south of Tehran, spokesman Ali Rabii said as quoted on the state television website.
120 kilograms per year
In a letter dated 20 December Iran had informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its desire to produce enriched uranium at 20%. According to the latest report available from the UN agency, published in November, Tehran was enriching uranium to a degree of purity higher than the limit provided for by the agreement of 2015 (3, 67%) but did not exceed the threshold of 4.5%, and still comply with the regime very strict Agency inspections.
But the case has been experiencing turmoil since the assassination at the end of November of an Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. In the aftermath of this attack attributed by Iran to Israel, the Iranian Parliament passed a controversial law calling for the production and storage of at least 67 kilograms per year of uranium enriched at % ”and“ end ”the inspections of