Iran increases its production of uranium as tensions grow

Poised: US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has been sent to the Arabian Sea as tensions escalate with Iran. Photo: Garrett LaBarge/U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS

Samuel Osborne
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Iran has quadrupled its production of low-grade uranium enrichment amid increased tensions with the United States, nuclear officials have said.

Iranian officials stressed the uranium would only be enriched to the 3.67pc limit set by the 2015 nuclear deal, making it suitable for civilian nuclear power generation but well below the 90pc purity required to make atomic bombs.