{"id":300548,"date":"2019-11-13T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300548"},"modified":"2019-11-13T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:38:08","slug":"iran-producing-low-enriched-uranium-to-save-nuclear-deal-lift-arms-embargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-producing-low-enriched-uranium-to-save-nuclear-deal-lift-arms-embargo\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran producing low-enriched uranium to save nuclear deal, lift arms embargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program said on Monday that the country is now producing more low-enriched uranium daily, after restarting an underground lab.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Akbar Salehi of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran made the comments as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also called on hard-liners to support the country&#8217;s troubled nuclear deal, saying it could open up international arms sales for the Islamic Republic next year.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has broken out of the accord&#8217;s limits since President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the accord between Tehran and world powers over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Salehi told AP journalists in Tehran that now the country is producing at least 5.5 kilograms daily (12 pounds). That&#8217;s compared to what Tehran had been producing about 450 grams (1 pound) of low-enriched uranium per day.<\/p>\n<p>Salehi said that&#8217;s due in part to restarting enrichment at Iran&#8217;s underground Fordo nuclear facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program said on Monday that the country is now producing more low-enriched uranium daily, after restarting an underground lab. Ali Akbar Salehi of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran made the comments as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also called on hard-liners to support the country&#8217;s troubled nuclear deal, saying it could open up international arms sales for the Islamic Republic next year. Iran has broken out of the accord&#8217;s limits since President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the accord between Tehran and world powers over a year ago. Salehi told AP journalists in Tehran that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}