Iran further breaches 2015 nuclear deal by doubling its advanced centrifuges on the 40th anniversary of the 1979 US Embassy takeover
Commander of the Iranian army General Abdolrahim Mousavi speaks an annual anti-US rally in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran on November 4, 2019.
By starting up these advanced centrifuges, Iran further cuts into the one year that experts estimate Tehran would need to have enough material for building a nuclear weapon, if it chose to pursue one. Salehi dramatically pushed a button on a keyboard to start a chain of 30 IR-6 centrifuges at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility, where he was being filmed, increasing the number of working centrifuges to 60.The nuclear deal limited Iran to using only 5,060 first-generation IR-1 centrifuges to enrich uranium by rapidly spinning uranium hexafluoride gas. Salehi also announced that scientists were working on a prototype he called the IR-9, which worked 50-times faster than the IR-1.
Iran has threatened in the past to push enrichment back up to 20 percent. That would worry nuclear nonproliferation experts because 20 percent is a short technical step away from reaching weapons-grade levels of 90 percent. It also has said it could ban inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
"Thanks to God, today the revolution's seedlings have evolved into a fruitful and huge tree that its shadow has covered the entire" Middle East, said General Abdolrahim Mousavi, the commander of the Iranian army.
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