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Macron said the current political situation in Iran, where protests have broken out against the government, changed the situation "a lot" and "fragilized" the likelihood of reaching a deal.

Those seven cascades, one of IR-4 centrifuges and six of IR-2m machines, were fully installed but not yet enriching, Monday's report said.

Iran is using the cascade of up to 174 machines to enrich uranium to up to 5% purity.

Tehran has demanded that the International Atomic Energy Agency end its investigation into uranium traces found in places of undeclared nuclear activity.

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The announcement comes just hours after the US announced new sanctions against Iran's petroleum trade.

Western powers warn Iran is getting closer to being able to sprint towards making a nuclear bomb. Iran denies wanting to.

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The fatwa in question against the creation of nuclear bombs, which Iran yammered about for years until supposedly publishing its text in 2010, is a hoax.

“A common fallacy is Iran would require 90% HEU, more commonly called weapon-grade uranium, to build nuclear explosives," said the president of the Institute for Science and International Security .