Iran to manufacture uranium metal in latest violation of nuclear deal

Tehran officials informed the United Nations' nuclear watchdog that assembly equipment is being prepared to produce the nuclear fuel.
Iranians walk past a poster depicting late Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani (R) and nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, assassinated last month, in the capital Tehran, on December 30, 2020. - On January 3, Iraq will mark a year since a US drone strike killed Soleimani, head of the elite external operations of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of Iraq's powerful Tehran-aligned Hashed Al-Shaabi paramilitary network, nearly sparking a conflict that ma
Iranians walk past a poster depicting late Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qasem Soleimani (R) and nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, assassinated last month, in the capital Tehran, on Dec. 30, 2020. - ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images
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Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations announced his government has begun preparations to manufacture uranium metal, a fuel used in nuclear reactors that can also be used as a central component in a nuclear warhead, in the Islamic Republic’s latest violation of the 2015 nuclear deal.

Research and Development “activities related to the design of an improved type of fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor started,” Kazem Gharib Abadi, the Islamic Republic’s permanent representative to the UN, announced on Twitter on Wednesday.

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