The Atomic Energy Agency said in a report that Iran has started operating a new workshop in Natanz to make spare parts for centrifuges used in uranium enrichment, adding that the machines were recently transferred there from the city of Karaj.
"On April 12, 2022, the agency completed the installation of surveillance cameras at this site and then removed the seals from the machines," the agency said in the confidential report to member states, without mentioning the location of the intended site in Natanz, according to Reuters.
"On April 13, 2022, Iran informed the agency that the machines will start working in the new workshop on the same day," the report added.
It is noteworthy that the Natanz facility is located 260 km from the city of Kashan in Isfahan Province, central Iran.
Iran has been engaged in negotiations with the West for a year;
In an effort to bring the United States back to the 2015 agreement on Tehran's nuclear program, the agreement would allow the lifting of sanctions imposed on Tehran, allowing it to access its frozen funds abroad.
The nuclear deal provided for sanctions relief for Iran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program to ensure that it could not develop nuclear weapons, which Tehran has always denied.
But the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the agreement in 2018 under the presidency of Donald Trump and the re-imposition of tough economic sanctions on Iran, prompted Tehran to retreat from some of its commitments.