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‘Not a nothing-burger’
On January 10, officials from the IAEA conducted an inspection at the Fuel Plate Manufacturing Plant in Esfahan, Iran, the nuclear watchdog agency told The Times of Israel. IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told member states three days later that Iranian officials had informed the agency that Tehran planned to begin construction of an assembly line for uranium metal production.
“Modification and installation of the relevant equipment for the mentioned R&D activities have been already started,” Iran told the IAEA in a January 13 letter.
The Iranian decision is a clear violation of the JCPOA. “For 15 years, Iran will not engage in producing or acquiring plutonium or uranium metals or their alloys, “ reads Annex I of the agreement, “or conducting R&D on plutonium or uranium (or their alloys) metallurgy, or casting, forming, or machining plutonium or uranium metal.”