Iran said Sunday it is fully prepared to enrich uranium at any level and with any amount, in further defiance of US efforts to pressure the country with sanctions.
In a news conference broadcast live, senior Iranian officials said Tehran would keep reducing its commitments every 60 days unless signatories of the pact moved to protect it from US sanctions.
“In a few hours the technical process will come to an end and the enrichment beyond 3.67% will begin,” said Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, as Reuters quoted.
“And tomorrow early in the morning, when the IAEA (UN nuclearwatchdog) takes the sample we would have gone beyond 3.67%.
Kamalvandi said Iran would enrich uranium for use in fueling its Bushehr power plant, to the level of 5%, confirming what Reuters reported on Saturday.
“We are fully prepared to enrich uranium at any level and with any amount,” he said.
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Iran shows no sign of caving in to pressure from US President Donald Trump in a confrontation that has taken on a military dimension, with Washington blaming Tehran for attacks on oil tankers, and Iran shooting down a US drone, prompting aborted US air strikes.
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