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Iran has announced that it would violate the June 27th limit of its enriched uranium stock, set under a nuclear deal reached in 2015 with world powers.
His agency for atomic energy said that Iran had quadrupled its production of this material, used for the manufacture of fuel for reactors and potentially nuclear weapons.
But he added that it was "still time" for European countries to act by protecting Iran from reinstated US sanctions.
The UK, France and Germany have warned Iran not to violate the agreement.
They said they would have no choice but to reimpose their own sanctions, which were lifted in exchange for limits on the Iranian nuclear program.
Iran has complained that it has not honored its commitments to mitigate the effects of sanctions imposed by the United States after President Donald Trump abandoned the deal last year.
Mr Trump wants to force Iran to renegotiate the agreement and end its ballistic missile program and put an end to its "malicious" activities in the Middle East.
This latest development comes at a time of high tension in the region, with the United States deploying military reinforcements and accusing Iran of being at the origin of alleged attacks that put the two oil fire Thursday. Iran denies any involvement.
Why has Iran increased its enrichment rate?
In early May, Trump stepped up pressure on Iran by ending exemptions from US side sanctions for countries that still buy Iranian oil. This measure aimed to deprive the Iranian government of its main source of income.
Iranian President Hbadan Rouhani later announced that his country was reducing its commitments under the nuclear deal.
This included non-compliance with the limits imposed on its stocks of low enriched uranium and heavy water – respectively fixed at 300 kg and 130 tonnes – and the stoppage of surplus sales. supply abroad.
Mr. Rouhani also gave 60 days to European powers to protect Iranian oil sales. If they failed, he said, Iran would suspend its restrictions on uranium enrichment and overhaul of its heavy water reactor at Arak, whose spent fuel would contain plutonium propitious to the bomb.
On Monday, a spokesman for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization said at a televised news conference in Arak that "the countdown before overtaking the 300 kg reserve of 39, enriched uranium has begun.
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