Iran will continue to enrich uranium to 20 per cent purity even after sanctions on it are lifted and a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers is revived, Iranian news agencies quoted the country's Nuclear Chief as saying on Friday, and Reuters reports. "(Uranium) enrichment … continues with a maximum ceiling of 60 per cent, which led Westerners to rush to negotiations, and it will continue with the lifting of sanctions by both 20 per cent and 5 per cent," the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, Mohammad Eslami, was quoted by the semi-official news agency, Fars, as saying. The 2015 deal restricts the purity to which Iran can enrich uranium to 3.67 per cent, far below the roughly 90 […]
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