Iran breached the limit on the amount of enriched uranium it is allowed to hold, in violation of the nuclear deal it signed with the U.S. and other world powers in 2015, the state-run news agency IRNA reported.
that it would soon breach the terms of the agreement if the European signatories did not act to prevent tough sanctions being imposed by U.S. that stop foreign businesses from trading with Iran and buying its oil.
Enriched uranium is used in energy production, although stockpiling uranium is also a necessary step to building nuclear weapons, which Iran has denied doing. Iran has threatened to increase its enrichment of uranium closer to weapons-grade levels by July 7. President Donald Trump is a longtime critic of what he called the"worst deal ever negotiated," and last yearthe U.S. out of the agreement, which was secured under his predecessor, Barack Obama, and was signed by the U.K., France, Germany, Russia and China.
There can now be multilateral sanctions against Iran for breaching the terms of the agreement — although the deal was unlikely to be effective without American support. The news comes amid rising tension between the U.S. and Iran. Trump called off an airstrike with minutes to spare after an American drone was
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