Dubai / LONDON (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it would violate the internationally recognized limit for low-enriched uranium stocks within 10 days - a move that could exacerbate tensions with Washington already highly situation - but added that European countries There is still time Rescue a historic nuclear agreement
The concerns expressed by Iran indicated that Germany urged Tehran to fulfill all its obligations under the 2015 agreement. The United Kingdom said that if Iran violates the restrictions set by the agreement, London will consider "all options".
Close the US allies, Israel, the enemies of Iran, and urge the world powers to quickly tighten the sanctions against Tehran if they exceed the enriched uranium limit.
Tensions in the United States and Iraq are intensifying after the government of US President Donald Trump accused Tehran of attacking two tankers in the Gulf of Oman (a major oil transport route) on Thursday. Iran denies any role.
Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces of the General Staff Mohammad Bakri denied on Monday that Tehran was behind the attack, and said that if the Islamic Republic of Iran decided to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz Strait, it will do so publicly.
Iranian Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi on national television that "our enrichment rate multiplied by four, even recently increased the concentration, therefore, 300 kg limit within 10 days it will be finished."
"Iran's reserves are growing at a faster pace every day."
Tehran said in May that it would reduce compliance with the nuclear agreement reached in 2015 with world powers to protest the US decision to withdraw unilaterally from the agreement and re-implement sanctions last year.
The agreement aims to block any route to Iran's nuclear bomb in exchange for most international sanctions.
The agreement requires Iran to curb its uranium enrichment capacity, Iran's low-uranium enrichment inventory is limited to 300 kg of uranium hexafluoride or equivalent to 3.67 percent at the same level for 15 years.
A series of more intrusive UN inspections under the agreement confirmed that Iran has been fulfilling its commitments.
President Hassan Rouhani urged European signatories to accelerate efforts to save the agreement, saying his collapse does not interest the region or the world.
"This is a crucial moment, France can still, and play a historic role in this very short time the other signatories to cooperate with the agreement to save the agreement," Rowhani with the new ambassador of France in Iran Cited in the talks.
The UN caretaker is worried
Kamalvandi told a news conference about Arak's Iranian heavy water nuclear reactor that Tehran could rebuild underground facilities to function properly. Heavy water can be used in the reactor to produce helium, which is the fuel used in nuclear warheads.
In January, the CEO of Iran's nuclear issue, Ali Akbar Salehi to state television, "Although the pipe in the reactor core of Arak pour concrete ... but in the case of breach of agreement in the West, Iran bought the pipeline for its replacement. "
Salehi said that only he and the highest authority in the country, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, knew the additional pipeline.
The European signatories of this agreement, France, the United Kingdom and Germany, defended the nuclear agreement as the best way to limit the enrichment of uranium in Iran.
But Iran has repeatedly criticized the delay in establishing a European mechanism that would protect trade with Iran from US sanctions. UU To save the nuclear agreement.
The United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency believe that Iran has its nuclear weapons program abandoned. Tehran denied that there was once.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompey said on Sunday that the United States does not want to go to war with Iran, but will take all necessary measures, including diplomacy, to ensure safe navigation through the Middle route. East.
The International Atomic Energy Agency of the IAEA declined to comment. His boss, Amano Amano, said last week he was concerned that tensions in Iran's nuclear program would intensify and that he hoped to resolve the problem through dialogue.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China did not respond immediately to requests for comments. The Dutch Foreign Minister, Steve Bullock, said on Monday that the EU wants to adhere to the Iranian nuclear agreement, but that Iran must do so.
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