Iran ramps up nuclear capacity

TEHERAN/WASHINGTON - Iran announced on Monday a more than tenfold increase in enriched uranium production, thus further stepping back from commitments it made under a landmark 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by the United States.

The Islamic republic has also developed two advanced centrifuges, one of which is undergoing testing, said Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.

Enriched uranium production has reached five kilograms per day, Salehi told reporters at the Natanz facility in central Iran in remarks broadcast by state television.