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IRAN MAKES NUCLEAR ADVANCE DESPITE TALKS

Iran has started producing enriched uranium with more efficient advanced centrifuges at its Fordow plant dug into a mountain, the UN atomic watchdog said on Wednesday, further eroding the 2015 Iran nuclear deal during talks with the West on saving it.

The announcement appeared to undercut indirect talks between Iran and the United States on bringing both fully back into the battered deal that resumed this week after a five-month break prompted by the election of hardline President Ebrahim Raisi.

Western negotiators fear Iran is creating facts on the ground to gain leverage in the talks. Underlining how badly eroded the deal is, that pact does not allow Iran to enrich uranium at Fordow at all.

Iran and major powers are trying to revive the 2015 deal under which Tehran limited its nuclear program in exchange for relief from U.S., EU and UN sanctions.

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