Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium is more than 2.4 tons, 12 times the cap set by the deal, though still far below the more than eight tons Iran had before signing it. Iran has been enriching uranium up to 4.5% purity, above the deal’s 3.67% limit, though below the 20% it achieved before the deal.

if(window.location.pathname.indexOf(“647856”) != -1) {console.log(“hedva connatix”);document.getElementsByClassName(“divConnatix”)[0].style.display =”none”;}Iran is enriching uranium in places where it is not allowed under the deal, such as at Fordow, a site dug into a mountain. More recently, it has started enriching with advanced centrifuges at its underground plant at Natanz, where the deal says it can use only first-generation IR-1 machines.“What I see is that we’re moving full circle back to December 2015,” UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi told Reuters in an interview, referring to the month before the Iran deal’s restrictions were put in place, after which large amounts of material and equipment were swiftly removed.“If they want to do it [comply], they could do it pretty fast. But for all of those things we had a charted course,” he said.In his interview with Reuters, Grossi, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that polices the deal, said there had been too many breaches for the agreement for it to simply fall back into place.“I cannot imagine that they are going simply to say, ‘We are back to square one’ – because square one is no longer there,” Grossi said at IAEA headquarters.“There is more [nuclear] material… there is more activity, there are more centrifuges, and more are being announced. So what happens with all this? This is the question for them at the political level to decide,” said Grossi, an Argentine who took office as IAEA director-general a year ago.Asked if that meant there would have to be a “deal within the deal,” he replied: “Oh yes, oh yes – Undoubtedly.”“It is clear that there will have to be a protocol or an agreement – or an understanding or some ancillary document – which will stipulate clearly what we do,” he said.