Iran has informed the IAEA of their intention to install three new cascades of centrifuges in their underground facility in Natanz.These are newer, more efficient variants of Iran’s centrifuge technology.
Iran installed the first cascade recently and is enriching with it. The nuclear agreement wasn’t meant to see better centrifuges put in place, but Iran says this is reversible once complaints about sanctions relief are resolved.
The resolution may be coming, as President-elect Joe Biden says he intends to bring the US back into the nuclear deal, and that is the source of the sanctions relief problem.
Iran announced it would move Natanz into the new underground facility over the summer, after an Israeli sabotage attack on the main site. This is intended to be harder to attack, which has made Israel very angry about the relocation.
This follows Wednesday’s vote in Iran’s Guardian Council to reduce nuclear commitments, a reaction to the assassination of top scientist Mohsen Fakhirazadeh last week. President Rouhani opposed this, saying it would harm diplomatic efforts.
Iran needs nuclear technology to counter their high cancer rates, due to sanctions which denies them high technology.
Kill off their scientists, then it makes them more desperate.
The US is choking them.