The Iranian regime is now comfortably violating all the restrictions of the nuclear deal it never signed, according to the latest report by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The ruling mullahs have increased their total stockpile of low-enriched uranium from 1,020.9 kilograms (1.1 tons) to 1,571.6 kilograms (1.73 tons), as of May 20, 2020. This is approximately eight times more than what the regime was allowed to maintain under the misbegotten nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Tehran had been permitted to keep a stockpile of 202.8 kilograms (447 pounds) according to the terms of the JCPOA, and enrich uranium up to 3.67%. Iran is now enriching uranium up to the purity of 4.5% and possesses more heavy water than would have been permitted under the nuclear agreement.
Additionally, the mullahs still are not allowing the IAEA to inspect its sites, a long-term problem which, according to the recent report, has reportedly now raised "serious concerns" for the international inspectors.
In addition, despite the fact that Iran is a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which it did sign, it has refused to allow the IAEA fully to inspect its sites, particularly to monitor Iran's military sites, where nuclear activities are most likely being carried out.
Regrettably, one of the most dangerous concessions that the Obama administration gave to the Iranian government was surrendering to the Iranian leaders' demand that military sites would be out of the IAEA's reach. Because of this concession, at various high-profile sites such as the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran, the regime has been free to engage in nuclear activities without the risk of inspection.
The IAEA's recent report still does not give a full picture of Iran's nuclear activities and is woefully underestimating the scope of the mullahs' nuclear program. The Iranian authorities have even admitted that they have a higher enriched uranium level than that being reported by the IAEA
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, declared that Iran has an adequate supply of 20% enriched uranium. "Right now we have enough 20% uranium," he told the Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, "but we can produce more as needed"
He added that the country is resuming uranium enrichment at a far higher level at the Fordow nuclear facility -- an underground uranium enrichment facility which is reportedly located on one of bases of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) -- injecting uranium gas into centrifuges, and operating 60 IR-6 advanced centrifuges.
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