Iran said Tuesday it had entered the final days of completing its commitments under a landmark international deal to curb its atomic programme after it shipped low-enriched uranium to Russia.
Iran said Tuesday it had entered the final days of completing its commitments under a landmark international deal to curb its atomic programme after it shipped low-enriched uranium to Russia.
Iran’s atomic energy agency said 11 tonnes of uranium materials were sent to Russia on Monday, a move US secretary of state John Kerry said was “significant progress” under the July 14 nuclear agreement between Iran and six major powers. By doing so Iran has now vastly depleted a stockpile of uranium that, were it enriched to higher purities, could have been used in developing a nuclear weapon, a goal the Islamic republic has denied pursuing.
Meanwhile, Norway says it has helped verify a shipment of 60 tonnes of raw uranium to Iran as part of an international deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme.
The foreign ministry said Tuesday that experts from the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority “verified and controlled the transportation” of the uranium from Kazakhstan to Iran on December 27.
Iran is receiving raw uranium in exchange for sending most of its low-enriched uranium to Russia under the July 14 nuclear agreement.
