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.