The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Agency of Iran (AEAI), Behruz Kamalvandí, said at a ceremony at the Fordow nuclear plant that currently the amount of Iran’s enriched uranium is between 360 and 370 kilograms.
The AEAI announced in early July that it had exceeded 300 kilos of uranium reserves allowed in the pact and that it had begun enriching uranium to 4.5 percent. According to the lawmaker Hamidreza Hajibabaei, Iranian scientists had been working on IR6 and IR7 types of centrifuges with work on IR8 centrifuges on their agenda.
Regarding heavy water, whose reserves are limited by the agreement to 130 tons, Kamalvandí explained that Iran does not have large quantities stored but could exceed that threshold because they are no longer governed by that commitment: ” Currently we are not only exporting heavy water but also other products such as deuterium and oxygen 18, ” which shows that “Iran could be an exporter of high-tech products,” he added.
The Iranian authorities plan to stop fulfilling other of their nuclear commitments next September unless the other party guarantees their oil exports and banking transactions. The head of the AEAI, Ali Akbar Salehí, did not want to detail the measures that will be taken in September, in the so-called third phase of reduction of nuclear commitments, and said that this issue would be consulted with the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
