Gasification to advanced centrifuges is a response to American extravagance

According to the foreign policy reporter of Fars news agency, on Wednesday, December 12, 2019, the two-urgent plan “strategic action to cancel sanctions and protect the interests of the Iranian nation” was amended in the Islamic Council and approved by the Guardian Council, and on the same day, the Speaker of the Council in a letter to the President The strategic action law to cancel sanctions was announced for implementation, and the executive regulations of this law were also approved by the cabinet on January 3rd. Ishaq Jahangiri, the then vice president, also notified the executive regulations of the aforementioned law to the relevant institutions for implementation.

Article 3 of this law states: In order to achieve the goal stated in Article 29, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran is obliged to carry out installation, gas injection, enrichment and storage of materials up to the required degree of enrichment within a maximum period of three months after the approval of this law. to start at least one thousand advanced second generation machines (IR2m) and also in the same period of time, to start enrichment and research and development operations with sixth generation machines (IR6) with at least 164 machines of this type and to complete it within a year after From the approval of this law, he will develop 1000 machines.

It was in this regard that on Monday night, the 10th of August, Behrouz Kamalundi, the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization, said in a television interview: “This evening, our colleagues were given the order to start hundreds of centrifuge machines, including all kinds of centrifuge machines, including IR1, and advanced machines, including IR6.”

He called this work in line with the implementation of the law of strategic action to cancel sanctions and protect the interests of the Iranian nation, as well as in line with reaching the minimum enrichment level of 190,000 sou, which is the level of the country’s needs, and stating that the International Atomic Energy Agency also Information has been given in this regard, he added: We had installed these machines, among them are 500 IR6 machines, the start of operation is a 10-15 day process, and gas will be injected into them today, and the agency has already been informed. and this step is taken in order to reach 190 thousand. In the past, many measures have been taken, especially in connection with reaching one thousand IR6 cars, and with this action, we are bringing the work that the Parliament asked us to start a thousand IR6 cars, injecting and operating them to the final stage. Other cars are in the process.

Kamalondi also explained in an interview with Diavogo Radio: In connection with the implementation of the Strategic Action Law to cancel sanctions and protect the interests of the Iranian nation, the Atomic Energy Organization has been given responsibilities. Out of the thousand IR6 centrifuges that we had to gasify and operate, we had already gasified 500 centrifuges and another 500 had been installed, but the operation had not yet started. We started it on Tuesday and it will take about a week. to receive the first product from them.

Pointing to the move towards 190,000 sou, Kamalondi said: This amount is the floor of the country’s needs, and when the JCPOA was concluded, a plan was approved by the Supreme National Security Council and sent to the agency, based on which 252,000 sou will be implemented in the 15th year of implementation. The agreement has been seen.

According to Fars, as Iranian officials announced, this action was in response to the new sanctions imposed on Iran by the US Treasury Department on Monday. In this regard, on Tuesday, August 11, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hossein Amirabdollahian mentioned to the journalists the new sanctions on Monday, August 10 by the US Treasury Department.+) who put six companies and one ship on the sanctions list under the pretext of connection with Iran, said: In response to this American action, since last night and based on the decision that was made, we have gassed hundreds of new generation centrifuges. Americans should not think that with these actions they can gain points at the negotiating table. (More details).

The new round of negotiations is supposed to resume soon in Vienna. For this purpose, Nasser Kanani, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced that the Iranian negotiating team headed by Ali Bagheri, Iran’s chief negotiator, will leave for Vienna in a few hours and added: In this round of talks, which will be held as before with the coordination of the European Union, Regarding the ideas presented by the parties, including the ideas presented by the Islamic Republic of Iran, which were presented to the other side this week, there will be a discussion and exchange of views (more details).

On the other hand, Muhammad Islami On Wednesday, August 12, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting of the government board: In order to implement the strategic action law to cancel the sanctions, in response to these sanctions, we started gassing the advanced centrifuges to show them that our will is a strong will and we will not fail to do anything to cancel the sanctions.

After this action, Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters on Tuesday, August 11, that Iran’s nuclear program is progressing very, very quickly, and added: Iran’s nuclear program is expanding in terms of ambitions and capacity. He also expressed hope that Iran is ready to be transparent about its nuclear program.More details).

According to Fars report, on the other hand, the representatives of the United States, France and England on Monday, August 10, in a statement at the review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) about Iran’s nuclear program, emphasizing that Iran should never develop nuclear weapons. reached, they expressed regret that despite intensive diplomatic efforts, Iran has not yet used the opportunity to restore the full implementation of the JCPOA and requested Iran to “return to the full implementation of the JCPOA and UN Security Council Resolution 2231 and immediately cooperate with the Agency in resolving Questions related to possible undeclared nuclear materials and activities to cooperate under safeguards agreements required by the NPT.

The statement said: “Nuclear weapons, as long as they exist, must serve the purposes of defense, prevention of aggression and prevention of war. We condemn those who use or threaten to use nuclear weapons for military coercion, intimidation and blackmail. “Such actions are deeply dangerous and contrary to the goals of the NPT and the UN Charter.”

Of course, this statement brought the reaction of the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Kanani, and he wrote in a tweet on Tuesday night: “Instead of blaming each other for the current situation of the JCPOA, England and France should pressure their ally to make the necessary decisions for an agreement.” Adopt stable and strong. The ineffectiveness of threats and sanctions has already been proven.

It should be noted that Behrouz Kamalondi, the spokesperson of the Atomic Energy Organization, also stated in an interview on July 19: The gassing of a new chain of IR6 centrifuge machines was informed to the agency at least two weeks ago, and earlier the agency informed in this regard that immediately, The international media also magnified it with the aim of pursuing specific goals. Iran’s action yesterday in harvesting 20% ​​of the product from this chain was the final technical part of this previously announced action, which the International Atomic Energy Agency had previously informed and was recently verified. And 1000 devices (6 chains) have been gassed from the IR6 centrifuge machine.

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