Iran confirms centrifuge workshop moved to underground site

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The nuclear deal saw Iran put advanced centrifuges into storage under the watch of the IAEA, while keeping its enrichment at 3.67% purity and its stockpile at only 300 kilograms (661 pounds) of uranium.
52% : Iran long has insisted its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
48% : However, U.S. intelligence agencies and the IAEA believe Iran had an organized military nuclear program up until 2003.
44% : There is concern that Iran could be closer to being able to construct an atomic weapon if it chose to pursue one.
41% : In the meantime, Iran has vastly expanded its nuclear workIran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday insisted negotiations over the deal "are going ahead properly," even after repeated comments by American officials that an agreement to restore the accord may not happen.
39% : Talks between Iran and world powers in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal have stalled.
37% : Meanwhile, Iran has stopped the IAEA from accessing its surveillance camera footage.
35% : Kamalvandi reiterated Iran's stance that Tehran will not provide data from the cameras to the U.N. nuclear agency if a deal is not concluded.
34% : Natanz itself has twice been targeted in sabotage attacks amid uncertainty over the nuclear deal, assaults that Iran has blamed on Israel.
28% : Iran's centrifuge facility in Karaj found itself targeted in what Iran described as a sabotage attack in June.
26% : The nuclear deal collapsed four years ago when former President Donald Trump withdrew the United States and imposed crushing sanctions on Iran.

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