- Iran, 40 years ago the embassy attack and the US hostage crisis, seized for 444 days
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04 November 2019 "During the last 60 days of ultimatum to the EU partners" of the nuclear agreement, "Iran has increased its daily uranium production by about 10 times, bringing it to 5,000 grams." The announcement was made by Ali Akbar Salehi, vice president of the Islamic Republic and head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA), who also said that in two months the country has developed two new models of advanced centrifuges, one of which starts to be tested."Iran is operating 60 advanced Ir-6 centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear site, which is twice as much as before", in violation of the 2015 nuclear agreement, announced on state TV Salehi, speaking in 40 / o US embassy employment anniversary.
The Ir-6 centrifuges can produce enriched uranium at a rate 10 times faster than the first-generation Ir-1 model, admitted instead by the agreement, thus further reducing the theoretical time necessary to produce the atomic, which Tehran has always denied of wanting to own. The Iranian authorities have also made it known that they are working on an even more powerful centrifuge prototype, which would be able to produce enriched uranium at a speed 50 times faster than the currently permitted centrifuges. The agreement signed with the 5 + 1, from which the United States last year withdrew unilaterally, establishes that the Islamic Republic may have a maximum of 5,060 Ir-1 centrifuges in operation.
The progressive disengagement from the agreement began on 8 May last. A year earlier, on 8 May 2018, the United States had unilaterally withdrawn from the agreement and subsequently tightened the sanctions against Tehran.