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  • Iran has resumed 20% uranium enrichment at an underground nuclear facility the government set on Monday, breaching a 2015 nuclear pact with major powers and possibly complicating efforts by U.

  • S president elect Joe Biden to rejoin the deal.

  • The breach coincides with increasing tensions between Iran and the United States in the final days of President Donald Trump's administration.

  • Tehran started violating the accord in 2019 after Trump withdrew from the pact, hostile actions and reimposed US sanctions that had been lifted Monday.

  • Step was one of many mentioned in a law passed by Iran's parliament last month in response to the killing of the country's top nuclear scientist, which Tehran has blamed on Israel.

  • Such moves by Iran could hinder attempts by the incoming Biden administration to re enter the agreements.

  • U.

  • S intelligence agencies believe Iran had a secret coordinated nuclear weapons program that it halted in 2003.

Iran has resumed 20% uranium enrichment at an underground nuclear facility the government set on Monday, breaching a 2015 nuclear pact with major powers and possibly complicating efforts by U.

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