Iran says it's no longer abiding by uranium enrichment limits

Iran is throwing down a new challenge to European leaders struggling to sustain their diplomatic push to calm the Gulf

Iran said it was no longer abiding by limits imposed on its uranium enrichment and centrifuge research by the 2015 nuclear accord, throwing down a new challenge to European leaders struggling to sustain their diplomatic push to calm the Gulf.

The Islamic Republic will forge ahead with plans to develop its advanced centrifuges and has started injecting them with gas, Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said on Saturday at a press conference. That’s a breach of a time-frame agreed within the deal that aimed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

He said that while Iran will