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U.N. confirms Iran violated nuclear deal's uranium stockpile limits

Iran is only allowed to enrich a certain amount of uranium up to 3.67%, enough to fuel a commercial nuclear power plant.

IAEA's Director General Yukiya Amano, second from right, meets with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in 2014.
IAEA's Director General Yukiya Amano, second from right, meets with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in 2014. (AN/Dean Calma)

The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency confirmed that Tehran has breached a stockpile limit for low-level enriched uranium under the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.

The International Atomic Energy Agency verified that the stockpile of enriched uranium permitted under the the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, is over the limit, IAEA's Director General Yukiya Amano told the U.N. agency’s board of governors on Monday.

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