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By Sara Rajabova

The recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Iran’s loyalty to obligations taken under an interim nuclear deal it signed with six world powers in November 2013.

Confidential report by the UN nuclear body Iran is honoring its commitment not to expand its atomic activities while negotiations are underway between Tehran and six world powers on a comprehensive final deal, Press TV reported.

The monthly update report said Iran was not enriching uranium above 5 percent, adding that the Islamic Republic was also diluting or converting most of its stockpile of 20-percent enriched uranium.

Iran is not advancing work at Fordow uranium enrichment facility, the report said, adding that Tehran is maintaining a construction freeze on the Arak heavy water reactor that would produce plutonium.

The IAEA report comes as Iran and the six world powers - the U.S, France, Britain, China, Russia and Germany – wrapped up next round of nuclear negotiations on January 18.

The sides are in talks to secure a final comprehensive deal over Tehran’s nuclear work.

Since an interim deal agreed in Geneva in November 2013, the negotiating sides have missed two deadlines to ink a final agreement. Tehran and the six countries now seek to reach a high-level political agreement by March 1 and to confirm the full technical details of the deal by July .

Iran and P5+1 group have decided to extend their talks for seven more months until July 1, with the interim deal they had signed in Geneva in November 2013 remaining in place.

The scale of Iran’s uranium enrichment and the timetable for the lifting of anti-Iran sanctions are seen as major sticking points in the ongoing negotiations.

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