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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Iran has offered to keep uranium below purity levels for a bomb, IAEA confirms

Iran's uranium conversion facility, just outside the city of Isfahan.
Iran's uranium conversion facility, just outside the city of Isfahan. Photograph: Vahid Salemi/AP

Iran has offered to keep its stock of uranium enriched up to 60% – below the purity levels required to make a nuclear bomb – the head of the UN nuclear inspectorate, Rafael Grossi, has confirmed amid the threat of restored European sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear activities.

“I think this is … a concrete step in the right direction. We have a fact which has been verified by us. It is the first time Iran has agreed to take a different path,” Grossi said in Vienna on Tuesday.

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