Iran nuclear deal: Centrifuge decommissioning ‘begins’

Iran has begun to decommission uranium enrichment centrifuges in order to fulfil the nuclear deal struck with six world powers in July, its nuclear chief has announced during a visit to Japan. Ali Akbar Salehi said initial work to reduce the number of centrifuges had started, but would take some time. Iran insists that its […]

Iran has begun to decommission uranium enrichment centrifuges in order to fulfil the nuclear deal struck with six world powers in July, its nuclear chief has announced during a visit to Japan.
Ali Akbar Salehi said initial work to reduce the number of centrifuges had started, but would take some time.
Iran insists that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.
The July agreement involves the lifting of sanctions in return for Iran curbing sensitive nuclear activities.
The deal between the so-called P5+1 – the US, UK, France, China and Russia plus Germany – was reached after 20 months of negotiations.
Mr Salehi was quoted by Japan’s Kyodo news agency as saying that work had begun on reducing the number of active centrifuge machines.
They are key to the process of enriching uranium, and limiting their number is a central part of the deal.