Permanent Representative of Iran in Vienna: Iran hopes to obtain 60% pure uranium next week

　　China News Service, April 14th. According to the Russian Satellite Network, Iran’s Permanent Representative to the International Organization in Vienna, Kazem Garib-Abadi, stated that Iran hopes to obtain 60% pure uranium next week.

　　Garib-Abadi wrote on his social media account: "The enrichment of UF6 (uranium fluoride) to 60% purity will be carried out in two cascades of IR-4 and IR-6 centrifuges in Natanz. The process. The improvement has just begun, and we plan to accumulate this product next week."

Data map: Iran's Arak heavy water reactor.

　　Earlier, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesperson Behrouz Kamalvandi said that preparations for the concentration of uranium to 60% will begin at the nuclear facility in Natanz on the evening of April 13, where sabotage activities have occurred. The inoperable IR-1 centrifuge will be replaced with a more efficient centrifuge of the same type.

　　According to reports, Iran has notified the International Atomic Energy Agency of its intention.

Iran pointed out that uranium enriched to 60% is used to produce molybdenum required for the manufacture of radioactive medical agents.

　　The power system of Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility failed on April 11.

Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Chairman Salish condemned the “hostile action” that day and characterized it as an act of “nuclear terrorism”.

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif accused Israel on the 12th of being responsible for the accident.

　　In July 2015, Iran reached an Iran nuclear agreement with the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany.

According to the agreement, Iran promised to limit its nuclear program and the abundance of enriched uranium should not exceed 3.67% in exchange for the lifting of sanctions against Iran by the international community.

　　In May 2018, the US government unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement, and subsequently restarted and added a series of sanctions against Iran.

Since May 2019, Iran has gradually suspended the implementation of certain provisions of the Iran nuclear agreement, but promised that the measures taken are "reversible."

　　At the beginning of January 2021, Iran announced that it had begun to implement measures to increase the abundance of enriched uranium to 20% at the Fordo nuclear facility.