Iran says it’s open to temporary uranium enrichment limits

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IRAN is open to accepting temporary limits on its uranium enrichment, its deputy foreign minister said Tuesday, while adding that talks with the United States have yet to address such specifics.
Tehran and Washington on Sunday held their fourth round of nuclear talks, which kicked off last month, marking their highest-level contact since the United States in 2018 pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal. “For a limited period of time, we can accept a series of restrictions on the level and volume of enrichment,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi.
“We have not yet gone into details about the level and volume of enrichment,” he said, quoted by Tasnim news agency. Iran currently enriches uranium to 60 per cent purity -- far above the 3.67 per cent limit set in the 2015 deal but below the 90 per cent needed for weapons-grade material.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that Iran was the only country in the world without nuclear weapons that enriches uranium to that level. — AFP

Source: The Global New Light of Myanmar