Iran nuclear ambition

The head of Iran’s nuclear programme said that the Islamic Republic has begun “preliminary activities for designing” a modern process for 20 per cent uranium enrichment for its 50-year-old research reactor in Tehran. Restarting enrichment at that level would mean Iran had withdrawn from the 2015 nuclear deal, an accord that the US pulled out of in May. However, Ali Akbar Salehi’s comments appeared aimed at telling the world Iran would slowly restart its programme.