Iran says ready to resume nuclear enrichment at industrial level

President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that he has ordered the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) to be ready for resuming nuclear enrichment at the industrial level.


'I have ordered AEOI official to go ahead with adequate preparations to resume enrichment at the industrial level without any limit,' President Rouhani said in a televised speech on Tuesday evening after the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal.

He said that Iran will wait for a few weeks to consult the European sides of the nuclear agreement as well as Russia and China.

'Everything depends on our national interests,' the president said, noting that if Iran's interests in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) are guaranteed without the US presence, Iran will stay in the deal.

US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Washigton would pull out of Iran nuclear deal and reinstate nuclear sanctions on Iran.

This is while most world powers including Russia, China, and European Union have repeatedly stressed that keeping the deal is in the interest of world peace and security.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has also confirmed 11 times that Iran has been committed to its obligations under the nuclear deal.
 IRNA
 8/5/18
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