Talks to salvage the international agreement on Iran’s 2015 nuclear program resumed in November in Vienna.
Iran has no intention of enriching uranium to more than 60% in case negotiations on its nuclear program fail, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, said on Saturday.
Questioned by the Russian press agency RIA Novosti On the possibility of Iran increasing the level of uranium enrichment if the negotiations are unsuccessful, Eslami replied “no.”
“Our objectives related to uranium enrichment are meeting our industrial and production needs (…) and those of our people,” he said.
After five months of interruption, the negotiations to save the international agreement on the Iranian nuclear program of 2015 were resumed in November in Vienna between the negotiating countries (Germany, France, the United Kingdom, China, Iran and Russia). After a ten-day break and several advances on the technical level, they will start again on Monday.
The 2015 pact collapsed following the US withdrawal in 2018 under the Donald Trump administration.
The new negotiations are aimed at bringing the United States, which currently participates indirectly, back to the agreement, while Tehran refuses to hold direct talks with Washington.
According to a report by the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA) consulted by AFP, the amount of uranium accumulated by Iran, estimated at the beginning of November at 2,489.7 kg, already exceeds the limit authorized by the 2015 agreement by more than twelve times.
If Tehran continues to carry out its atomic activities at the current rate, there are only “a few weeks” left to salvage the pact, US negotiator Rob Malley said Tuesday. (I)
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