if we resume, a decade on the critical sunset, in terms of the enrichment level. at the same time, their efforts to weaponize, based on public information, paused, stops some years ago. we looked carefully to see if they resume. we would be focused on this like a hawk either way. to the point, and the chairman s point, the agreement does not address other malicious activities. we have two premises. one, when it comes to the activities, things would be it would encourage them to act with greater impunity. it does not take away from our ability to go at them in other
enriched uranium that they are stockpiling. now they re increasing the enrichment level. they re going from 3.67% to 5%. they haven t said that now. to keep that in perspective, they need an enrichment of 90% to build a nuclear weapon. they say that s not something they want to do but they are far away from that. it is a very significant move. the big question is why are the iranians doing that? they are saying straightforward they are part of the nuclear agreement and have been abiding by it but they haven t gotten any program. they say if they re not going to get any benefits or get sanctioned by the u. states, they are going to stop. all in time they say they are going to do. all of this already coming in an extremely volatile situation.
research reactor. once it is enriched to 90% or more, it is suitable to use in nuclear weapons. nuclear deal, the joint comprehensive plant of action required iran to sphip all of is enriched ruranium out of the country. it was limited to 660 pounds or less. the top enrichment level, the country was allowed was set at 3.67% purities. at that purity, you can t do anything except to generate energy. the agency says inspector would check if iran exceeded this enrichment. the reasons those limits are important, it takes about 550 pounds or 250 kilos of 20% enriched ruranium.
reactors. so iran s argument that the wants uranium for nuclear power, you don t need anything more than 5% enriched. 20 to 93% 90% or more makes the weapons grade. the 2015 iran nuclear deal, the joint comprehensive plan of action, it s called the jcpoa required iran to ship all of its enriched uranium out of the country and they got raw uranium in return. they can then process that, but the was limited up to 660 pounds or less of low-enriched uranium, the kind that you need for energy production. at the top enrichment level, the country was allowed to set the at 3.67% purity. again, not anywhere nothing you can make weapons out of. the international atomic energy said that inspectors would check if iran had indeed exceeded this limit, which the says the has. the reason these limits are important is that the takes
affects our sovereignty because it happened in spanish waters. iranian authorities 7 and britain s ambassador in what the country is calling an illegal seizure. this comes as iran says it is days away from enriching uranium, the nuclear deal threshold, violation of the agreement. iranian president rouhani is giving european participants in the deal until sunday to come up with a solution to the economic problems before iran take steps to further unravel the 2015 plan. from july 7th our level of uranium enrichment will no longer remain at 3.67 level. we will put this commitment to one side and whatever level we deem is essential for us to a level that we need. the enrichment level increase would be the second breach of the iran nuclear deal. earlier this week the iranian surpass the uranium stockpile and it laid out in the plan. the united states is no longer a party to the agreement after pulling out last year and reimposing sanctions on iran the trump administration continues to