The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, told the Kyodo News agency that Iran had started preliminary work, referring to centrifuges and other steps.
The entire process will “take some time,” said Mr. Salehi, who is also a vice president, a former foreign minister and a member of the nuclear negotiating team.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, endorsed the nuclear agreement in October but with a set of conditions, including a call for Parliament to oversee the execution of the deal.
“Unfortunately, in the last two days, a number of contractors entered the Fordo site to remove the centrifuges and the infrastructure at this site, and they have said that it will take them two weeks to finish the work,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, referring to one of the two enrichment plants.
The government is in need of cash, and some officials have argued that each delay in meeting the terms of the nuclear accord will only prolong the sanctions.
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