Radio Free Europe:
The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization has said that the country would need only five days to resume high-level uranium enrichment.
The August 22 comments by Ali Akbar Salehi follow accusations by the U.S. administration that Tehran is not abiding by the spirit of the 2015 agreement with world powers, which placed curbs on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
Tehran, for its part, accuses Washington of violating the spirit of the deal by imposing new sanctions against the Islamic republic over its missile program.
“If we make the determination, we are able to resume 20 percent-enrichment in at most five days,” Salehi told state broadcaster IRIB.
He said that Iran’s “biggest priority” was to maintain the nuclear accord, but “not at any price.”
