Araz News: Iran had requested to buy 950 tons of uranium concentrate from Kazakhstan over the next three years.

According to Iran official news agency ISNA, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said.

“The purchase was supposed to happen within three years. 650 tons will enter the country in two consignments and 300 tons will enter Iran in the third year. The final shipment of concentrate, known as yellow cake, would be turned into uranium hexafluoride gas and sold back to Kazakhstan — its first international sale of the compound”, Salehi said.

Under the nuclear deal, many of Iran’s centrifuges were mothballed but it has the right to enrich uranium to a level of 3.5 percent and sell it abroad.

Nuclear weapons require uranium enriched to 80% or more.

Salehi said Iran has already received around 382 tons of yellow cake, primarily from Russia, since the nuclear deal came into force in January last year.

Under the deal, Iran is allowed to run around 5,000 “IR-1” centrifuges and has been testing more advanced models that can produce greater quantities of enriched uranium — all under the strict supervision of the UN atomic agency.

By-A.A