Nuclear security

Iran Stops Dismantling Centrifuges After Hard-Line Criticism

Iran has stopped dismantling centrifuges in at least one of the country’s nuclear facilities. 
Alireza Zakani, the head of the Iranian parliament’s nuclear deal commission, said the deactivation of the centrifuges had stopped at the Fordo underground facility because of the lawmakers’ letter to President Hassan Rohani.
Zakani did not mention the state of activities at the Natanz enrichment plant.
The move comes a few days after a group of hard-line lawmakers called on Rohani to stop dismantling centrifuges, which they claimed was being done too rapidly and not according to directives from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The dismantling of the centrifuges is part of the landmark nuclear deal that Iran signed with six world powers in Vienna in July that curbs Iran's controversial nuclear program in exchange for relief from international economic sanctions.