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"That worries me," he added.
The US unilaterally abandoned the multilateral nuclear deal in 2018 even though Iran in the UN’s eyes was in full compliance with it.
Iran has said it no longer considers itself bound by the agreement and has gradually reduced some of its commitments under the deal.
It has said it would be willing to move back to full compliance with the deal if Europe provides “meaningful” economic benefits in the face of US sanctions that are designed for force Tehran into a much tougher nuclear deal.
With the nuclear deal in place, Iran’s so-called “breakout time”—the time Tehran would require to build a bomb if it chose to do so—stood at around a year. Since Iran started ignoring limits of the nuclear deal, it has slowly shortened that period.
Prior to the nuclear deal, Iran enriched uranium up to 20%, meaning it was a short technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%. In 2013, Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was assessed at more than 7,000kg with higher enrichment.
2.3​ ​Iranian Army launches coronavirus “Jihad” HQ
The Iranian Army Ground Forces have opened a “Jihadi Base” (“Crusade Base”) to assist in the fight against the coronavirus, Tasnim News Agency has reported. ​The virus has officially so far killed more than 50 people and infected nearly 600 others in Iran. The virus has been sweeping through the country and neighbouring nations at break-neck-speed in recent days. Now the army has been drafted in to deal with rolling out efforts to combat the epidemic and to stop any potential riots.
The base was inaugurated during a ceremony in Tehran on March 1 attended by top commanders of the army, including those of the regular armed forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is mobilising its Basij paramilitary forces to disinfect cities on an hourly basis.
Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Forces, Brigadier General Kiomars Heidari, said the Jihadi Base was now the central command in the fightback against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in the country, with all forces now reporting to it.
A spokesman for Iran’s National Headquarters for Coronavirus Management, Kianoush Jahanpour, announced earlier on March 1: “According to the WHO’s statistics, Iran has managed to cure the largest number of patients with coronavirus disease after China.”
“Iran currently ranks second in the world in the treatment of COVID-19, with definitive treatment and recovery of at least 123 patients, higher than Singapore, Italy, Japan and South Korea,” he added in his tweet.
Schools, universities, seminaries and mosques across the country remain shut for a second week as the country continues to fight the outbreak.
One report in the country said the Ministry of Education has commandeered national television broadcaster IRIB to broadcast lessons to children barred from attending school through daytime hours.
7​ IRAN Country Report​ March 2020 www.intellinews.com