President Hassan Rouhani explained the reasons behind the decision to ramp up uranium enrichment as he spoke during a cabinet session on Wednesday. The president linked the weekend incident at Natanz to the ongoing talks in Vienna over the comatose 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of …
Read More »Iran says it will enrich uranium to 60% in the wake of suspected Israeli sabotage at Natanz
Abbas Araghchi, a deputy foreign minister who serves as Iran’s chief negotiator with P5+1 – Iran’s counterparts in the 2015 nuclear agreement – announced the step on Tuesday speaking to English-language Iranian channel Press TV. He said Tehran will inform the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, that Iran will be …
Read More »Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization says 55 kilos of 20%-enriched uranium produced since January amid nuclear deal talks
Speaking with the Sada-e Vasima news agency on Wednesday, Behrouz Kamalvandi, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran’s (AEOI) spokesman, said the country had exceeded the enrichment capacity achieved before the introduction of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015. The JCPOA saw Iranian atomic ambitions curtailed in exchange …
Read More »IAEA report confirms Iran’s 20 percent uranium enrichment, says no explanation given for undeclared nuclear particles
The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also says that Iran has produced 17.6 kg of uranium enriched to the 20 percent level – as the country had already announced – matching its target of 10 kg a month, according to Reuters. Iran’s hardline-led parliament passed a bill …
Read More »Iran will enrich uranium up to 60% if it wants to, Khamenei warns amid discontent over IAEA deal
Tehran’s position on the JCPOA nuclear deal will not change, Khamenei said on Monday, adding that Iran will not bow to international pressure – from either its European partners in the deal or the US, which is no longer party to the agreement. While the Ayatollah stressed that Iran is …
Read More »Israeli PM Netanyahu claims Iran’s uranium enrichment to 20 percent is bid to develop nukes
“Iran’s decision to continue violating its commitments, to increase the level of enrichment and advance its abilities to enrich uranium underground cannot be explained in any way other than the continued implementation of its intention to develop a military nuclear program,” Netanyahu said in a statement. A spokesperson for the …
Read More »Iran says it started enriching uranium to 20%, drifting further away from US-violated nuclear deal
The enrichment process began “hours ago,” government spokesman Ali Rabiei told the Mehr news agency on Monday, adding that the first portion of higher purity uranium hexafluoride will be coming from the centrifuges later in the day. The chemical is used in its gaseous forms to separate different isotopes of …
Read More »Iran building production hall for uranium-enriching centrifuges ‘in the mountains’ near Natanz facility
Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting on national security on Tuesday, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said construction work is already underway. “It was decided to establish a more modern, wider and more comprehensive hall in all dimensions in the heart …
Read More »Russia will import 12 thousand tons of uranium waste from Germany
Russia after 10-year hiatus, resuming the import of radioactive uranium waste from Europe. As reported by Tageszeitung, in the period from 2019 to 2022 Russia will take 12 thousand tons of depleted uranium from Germany. We are talking about the so-called “uranium tails” – that is, side-dressing products, which remain …
Read More »Iran exceeded the permissible level of uranium enrichment
The representative of the Iranian organization of atomic energy of Kamalvandi Behruz said that the Islamic Republic has begun enriching uranium up to 3.67%. The excess of the amount specified in the agreement on the nuclear program, informs IRNA. It also became known that the nuclear scientists of Iran prepared …
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