Edit... Yousef Gouda

Noting that withdrawal from the agreement had brought Tehran closer to possessing nuclear weapons, a week earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Plinkin said the nuclear agreement prevented Iran from continuing its nuclear activities.

Three years after former US President Donald Trump pulled out of a historic nuclear agreement with Iran, Tehran is closer to having the materials needed to make a nuclear weapon than if the agreement remains in force.

Using more sophisticated techniques than they could have under a strict control regime, Iranians enriched more uranium to higher levels

Iran has amassed enough enriched uranium (meaning that it has an increased concentration of the uranium- 235 isotope) to make multiple bombs if its leaders choose to purify heavy metal to the level of 90% normally used in weapons.

By producing 2.4 kg (5.3 lb) of highly enriched uranium, purified to 60% levels, Iran demonstrated that its engineers could quickly move to weapons level.

According to IAEA inspectors, Iran stored more than 3,300 kilograms of low-enriched uranium, which typically contains 3% -5% concentration of "235 uranium," as well as 63 kg of enriched material up to 20% purity.

It should be noted that a confidential report by United Nations inspectors in January revealed that Iran had taken a new step towards the possible production of nuclear weapons, claiming that Tehran had started working on a assembly line to manufacture key material in nuclear warheads.

These developments prompted new President Joe Biden's administration to join diplomats from Europe, China and Russia in seeking to revive the 2015 agreement, which curbed Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for economic sanctions relief.

The European Powers also warned that Iran's decision to lift uranium enrichment put it close to possessing the nuclear bomb. France, Germany and the United Kingdom said that they were deeply concerned by Iran's decision to raise levels of uranium enrichment close to the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

France called on Iran "to provide clarifications as soon as possible on undeclared nuclear material and facilities," confirming its support for the IAEA and its "substantive" work.

Several officials in Iran reportedly stressed that their country did not want to produce a nuclear weapon as a force of mass destruction prohibited in accordance with Islamic law, despite the announcement of an increase in uranium enrichment, which is thought to be a ploy to pressure Washington to negotiate and lift sanctions.

The representative of Iran to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Kasem Ghraib Abadi, said that the Agency's report had been prepared under the suspension of voluntary procedures outside the safeguards agreement by Iran since 23 February.

Iran's actions were part of the implementation of the Strategic Initiative Act to abolish the embargo and safeguard the rights of the people: "This report shows very well the implementation of the Iran resolution of 23 February."