Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday that the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, will visit Iran on Friday to attend high-level meetings.
The visit comes amid discussions with Tehran regarding the origin of enriched uranium particles with a purity of up to 83.7%, at the Fordow facility, which is very close to the degree of purity required to manufacture nuclear weapons, according to a report issued by the agency.
The report stated that stocks rose on February 12 to 3,760.8 kg, compared to 3,673.7 kg in October, exceeding 18 times the ceiling allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal.
For his part, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, today, Wednesday, downplayed the importance of what the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
“A slight change was detected in one of the tests, but we couldn’t even see it with a microscope,” Islami added in Tehran.
Islami said the level of enrichment reached 60 percent, according to state media.
In a letter issued on February 20, Iran informed the agency of the possibility of “unintended changes in enrichment levels” last November.
