Iran has breached internationally-agreed limits on its enriched uranium stocks in a further blow to a landmark nuclear deal that President Donald Trump abandoned last year.
Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, revealed on Monday that the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium had expanded, a development the International Atomic Energy Agency later said it had investigated and confirmed.
In May Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani said the Islamic republic would exceed limits on the nuclear deal within 60 days unless the remaining signatories to the nuclear deal took steps to counter the impact of US sanctions. That deadline expires on July 7.