(The Sun)
Jon Lockett June 17, 2019 11:59
IRAN announced today it intends to smash the strict uranium stockpile limits set under the nuclear deal it struck with the world's leading powers.
The hard-line country's shock statement is another blow to a pact already crumbling since the US’s high-profile withdrawal.
"Today the countdown to pass the 300 kilograms reserve of enriched uranium has started and in 10 days time we will pass this limit," said Iran's atomic energy organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi.
"This is based on the Articles 26 and 36 of the (nuclear deal), and will be reversed once other parties live up to their commitments."
Kamalvandi acknowledged the country has already QUADRUPLED its production of low-enriched uranium.
The news is bound to ramp up tensions between Iran and the West already at breaking point following the shock bomb attack on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
Many international observers believe the attack was an act of "revenge" by Iran after the White House imposed crippling economic sanctions after Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal.
Just last month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced his country would stop observing restrictions on its stocks of enriched uranium and heavy water agreed under the 2015 deal.
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