Behruz Kamalvandi, an official with Iran's Nuclear Energy Agency (AEGI), said in a press conference this week that “the countdown has begun, and by 27 June our uranium production will have surpassed the 300 kilograms ", thus surpassing the amount established in the Nuclear Agreement.

The official announcement comes exactly one year and one month after the abandonment by the U.S. of the Nuclear Agreement, signed between Iran, the U.S. and several European countries, and amid growing tension in the region with threats, recrudescence of U.S. sanctions against Iran and the sending of additional U.S. troops to its neighboring countries.

The spokesman of the AEGI reported that in addition to exceeding the level of storage of enriched uranium, his country will soon accumulate more than 130 metric tons of heavy water "if we do not find a market in two and a half months." 

The official also announced that from the second week of July Iran will increase the enrichment of its uranium from the agreed 3.67% to 5%, for use in its power plants, and up to 20% for use in the reactor located in the capital, Tehran.

Although Iran's announcements about the increase in uranium enrichment levels are still far from the 90% needed for the production of nuclear bombs, they could lead to the end of the Nuclear Agreement, which would certainly have heavy consequence. The spokesman of the AEGI, referring to the signatory European countries, France, Germany and Britain, said that "it will be to their detriment to let the U.S. take decisions in their place.”