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Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi rejected a report by The Wall Street Journal that Iran has agreed after discussions with the Group 5+1 (Russia. China. the US. Britain. France and Germany) to push its stockpile of enriched uranium far below the 300-kilogram cap fixed in a 2015 nuclear agreement.
The report claimed that Iran has agreed to a plan that would see the mothballed Natanz nuclear facility in central Iran cleaned out. with the enriched uranium flushed out of the pipes and degraded. It has also estimated the enriched uranium stuck in the pipes and machinery at the plant at 100 kilograms when the nuclear deal was reached in 2015.
The WSJ has also announced that after flushing out all the enriched uranium. Iran’s stockpile of the material would likely fall under 200 kilograms.
