VIENNA: Iran has reduced its stockpile of low-enriched uranium gas and taken other action to comply with the terms of last year’s interim nuclear agreement with world powers, a UN nuclear agency report showed yesterday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency issued a monthly update on the preliminary accord’s implementation.
The IAEA checks that Iran is living up to its part of the interim agreement, which was designed to buy time for the current talks on a final settlement of a 12-year dispute over Tehran’s atomic ambitions.
Under the accord, Iran agreed to halt its most sensitive nuclear work in exchange for some sanctions easing. It also undertook to keep down its stockpile of uranium gas refined to low levels by converting it into oxide, a form less suitable for processing it further into weapons-grade material.
The IAEA report showed the stockpile now amounted to just under 7,400 kilograms, below the limit agreed with the powers last year. Early this month, it had been above the limit.
REUTERS
