Iranian official: Iran is capable of increasing uranium enrichment to 60 %

Iran can enrich uranium from 40 percent to 60 percent. The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Agency of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi said, Report states.

“Yesterday, we started 20 percent enrichment at Fordow [nuclear facility] after six years,” Kamalvandi said on Tuesday, adding, “We have the capacity in the nuclear industry to produce at higher levels even 40- 60 percent.”

“Currently, we have 4 tons of substance with 3.5 and 4 percent enrichment and, according to the forecast based on the parliament’s ratification, we will increase our capacity almost to 500 tons per month,” Behrouz told Fars.

“This means 6 tons annually, and we can say that within a year, we will have nearly 10 tons of uranium equal to the capacity before the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,” he added.

On Monday, the Iranian government announced that it had resumed 20 percent uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow nuclear facility.