Iranian authorities announced today that its nuclear facilities will be under increased scrutiny by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as European countries threatened to reimpose sanctions on Tehran.
At the end of November, Iran announced the commissioning of new centrifuges for its nuclear program, in response to an IAEA resolution accusing Iran of a lack of cooperation on the issue, which threatens its relations with Western countries.
"We have increased our (nuclear) capabilities and it is natural that the number of inspections increases," said the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, IRNA reported.
The IAEA said on Friday that Iran had agreed to increased monitoring.
At the beginning of December, Tehran announced that it will start powering new centrifuges at the Fordo site (in the central part of Iran), "with the long-term effect of significantly increasing the rate of production of enriched uranium up to 60 percent", stated the IAEA agency based in Vienna.
In 2015, in Vienna, Iran concluded an agreement with France, Germany, Great Britain, China, Russia and the USA on the regulation of the nuclear program. In return, the text provided for the reduction of international sanctions against Tehran.
However, in 2018, Donald Trump (Trump), then US president, unilaterally withdrew his country from the agreement and reimposed heavy sanctions on Iran.
In response, Tehran increased its reserves of enriched uranium to 60 percent, while 90 percent is needed to make atomic weapons.
Iran defends the right to nuclear energy for civilian purposes, especially for energy purposes, but denies that it wants to acquire an atomic bomb, but Western countries doubt this.
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