When Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi announced July 7 that Iran would surpass the uranium enrichment limits it had committed to under the 2015 nuclear arms deal, it was nothing like the last time Tehran said it would break an international enrichment deal.
In 2005, then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared before cameras wearing a nuclear engineer’s uniform, removing the seals from centrifuges. It was a scene portrayed in Iranian media as a heroic act.