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Ali Akbar Salehi: "Iranian enriched uranium stocks reach 800 kg"

23 December 2019 23:11 (UTC +04:00)

The Iranian stocks of enriched uranium has reached 800 kg, head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday, APA reports citing TASS.

"Now we already have more than 800 kg of enriched uranium," the Tasnim news agency quoted him as saying. "We produce 200 kg of uranium monthly and in the next nine months we will have been able to enrich around 2 tonnes [of uranium]." The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program limited the amount of enriched uranium at 300 kg for Tehran.

Salehi added that "it is too early to talk about the new step of Iran [to scale back on its commitments to the nuclear deal]." "It is a responsibility of the president and he has yet to make corresponding statements," the official noted.