Iran has made 'substantial change' at nuclear site, says UN

The UN's nuclear watchdog has expressed concern over Iran's continuing breaches of a 2015 agreement with world powers, accusing Tehran of significantly changing designs at a key nuclear plant.

Details of a visit by an International Atomic Energy Agency delegation to Iran were revealed in an unreleased report seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

Rafael Grossi, the IAEA chief, “is concerned that Iran has implemented a substantial change in the design information” at the Fordow nuclear plant without informing the agency in advance, the report said.

Two IR-6 uranium enrichment cascades were interconnected in a manner “substantially different” from what Iranian officials had declared to the IAEA, it added.

The IAEA has been at an impasse for months with Tehran, which has refused to yield to member state's urges to explain traces of highly-enriched uranium at undeclared sites. In November, it announced it would increase its stockpile of uranium and install several advanced centrifuges, including the IR-6, at Fordow and Natanz.

The IAEA has not held back on criticism of Tehran and said the new measure undermines it ability to put safeguards in place at the site.

Iran has expanded its uranium enrichment since 2018, after former president Donald Trump withdrew the US from the 2015 nuclear deal known as the JCPOA.

The watchdog has assessed that the country now possesses a large stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 per cent — one step away from being able to produce an atom bomb.

While it would still face several hurdles in producing one, the UK has previously warned that Iran is moving quickly to procure nuclear weapons — with its breakout time reduced to “a matter of weeks.”

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