Nuke bomb plan, Tehran working on infrastructure to build advanced centrifuges at Natanz facility`

Iran has increased its stockpile of uranium and boosted its ability to enrich it to weapons grade, the head of its atomic agency admitted yesterday. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said the regime had imported 550 tonnes of uranium before the 2015 agreement to curb its nuclear programme. It had acquired about 400 tonnes more since then, bringing the total to between 900 and 950 tonnes.

Iran has also built a factory that can produce rotors for up to 60 IR-6 centrifuges a day for uranium enrichment, Salehi said. The announcements came a month after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he had ordered agencies to prepare to increase uranium-enrichment capacity if the nuclear deal falls apart after Washington’s withdrawal.