Bahrain Mirror: Iran said on Tuesday it had sent 11 metric tonnes of heavy water to Oman as part of its obligations under last year's nuclear deal with world powers, agencies reported.

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said the heavy water has been sold to an unnamed third country. "Eleven tonnes of heavy water has been sent to Oman and the other party has announced its readiness for the purchase," Salehi said, according to the IRIB news agency. 

"Iran has fulfilled its obligations on heavy water stockpiles," Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said on Friday. "We were required to put on the international market any excess over 130 tonnes, and so far we have sold 70 tonnes," he said.

In a report this month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran has met its other obligations under the deal. However, it added that Iran's stocks of heavy water had crept 100 kilos above the 130-tonne level set out in the nuclear deal with world powers that came into force in January. The IAEA report

Heavy water is used in some nuclear reactors as an easing substance that slows down the nitrogen resulted by nuclear fission.

The deal signed between China, the US, France, the UK, Russia, and Germany, states the gradual halt of sanctions imposed on Iran, in exchange to monitoring the Iranian nuclear program.

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