Iran steps up nuclear programme, holds South Korean tanker
Tehran (AFP) Jan 5, 2021
Iran said Tuesday it had stepped up its uranium enrichment at a time of heightened tensions with the United States and after it seized a South Korean tanker in strategic Gulf waters. Tehran said it was now refining uranium to 20 percent purity - far above the level permitted under its 2015 agreement with world powers, but far below the 90 percent required for an atomic bomb - in a step Was
