The United Nations' Nuclear Monitoring Agency has said that Iran has collected more than 10 times as much uranium as it can hold under the international nuclear deal.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has stated that Iran's reserves of enriched uranium have now reached 2,105 kg, while under the 2015 agreement it could not exceed 300 kg.

Iran said in July last year that it had started using new and advanced technology centrifuge devices for uranium enrichment.

Centrifuges are used to separate the chemical particles of uranium from each other.

Uranium is cultivated in two places in Iran - Natanz and Fordo.

After enrichment, it can also be used to develop nuclear power or nuclear weapons.

Iran has long emphasized that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Iran allowed IAEA observers to investigate one of its two previously suspected nuclear targets.

Now the agency has said that it will take samples from another location this month.

Last year, Iran deliberately and openly began violating the 2015 nuclear deal promises.

The United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, France and China also signed with Iran on this nuclear deal.

Iran started enriching uranium more than permitted in 2019. However, it was far below the level required to build nuclear weapons.

Can Iran make nuclear weapons with this?

Iran will need 3.67 percent enriched 1,050 kg of uranium to make nuclear weapons. But an American group 'Arms Control Association' says that later it will have to be increased by 90 percent.

U-235 isotopes of low-enriched three to five percent density uranium can be made using electricity as fuel.

The uranium used to make weapons is 90 percent or more enriched.

Experts say that even if Iran does, it will take a long time to complete the process of Enrichment.

Iran said last week that it had let arms observers investigate their targets in 'harmony' so that issues related to nuclear security could be resolved.

The IAEA criticized Iran for not allowing the investigation of the two bases and not answering questions about secretly kept nuclear material and its activities.

Now the International Monitoring Agency has issued a statement saying that "Iran has given samples to the agency's supervisors. These samples will be tested in the laboratories of the agency's network.

Iran stopped following the terms of the international nuclear deal last year. He took this step after US President Donald Trump announced his withdrawal from the deal.

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