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Eleven days ago the Iranians started and publicized a countdown to violate the discarded 2015 nuclear deal’s limits on its uranium stockpile.
But Reuters and the Mehr News Agency in Tehran reported Iran postponed its time-sensitive threat to surpass the deal’s stockpile limit until after a meeting in Vienna on Friday. Senior officials from Iran, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China are set to attend the Vienna meeting, which aims to save the accord.
On Wednesday, the UN nuclear watchdog verified that Iran had roughly 200 kg of low-enriched uranium, below the deal’s 202.8 kg limit, but that exceeding the limit could still happen by this weekend. Reuters also claimed that Iran was producing at a rate of around 1 kg a day.
As the nuclear talks continue, the AP reported on how the U.S. cutting off Iran’s ability to sell crude on the global market, and threatening to sanction any nation that purchases it, renders daily life unaffordable for much of the Islamic Republic’s 80 million people.
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