Iran’s nuclear activities are being conducted under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), including Tehran’s preparations for uranium metal production, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
Earlier this month, Iranian Permanent Representative to international organisations in Vienna Kazem Gharib Abadi announced that Tehran had begun work on the production of uranium metal.
“All nuclear activities in Iran are under the relentless control of the IAEA.
“All the steps that were recently taken by Tehran, including the start of uranium enrichment to 20 per cent and the preparation of the infrastructure for the production of uranium metal, were also carried out under the strict supervision of the agency’s inspectors,” the ministry noted.
It added that the IAEA continued to make sure that Iran’s nuclear programme was exclusively peaceful, as repeatedly claimed by Tehran.
The Iranian parliament ratified in late 2020 the bill on Strategic Action for Lifting of Sanctions in response to the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
The law effectively absolves the country from its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and allows it to enrich uranium to 20 per cent purity or higher, which can be used to create nuclear weapons.
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