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Iran: International nuclear inspectors alarmed to find
uranium enriched to 84% purity, now in talks
FEB 21, 2023 9:00 AM
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
Jihad Watch
The IAEA is backpedaling and trying to save face. In 2020, a report in the Guardian stated:
Iran has admitted a further breach of the 2015 nuclear deal by firing up advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges installed at its underground plant at Natanz.
The finding was made by the UN nuclear weapons inspectorate, the International Atomic Energy Association, and confirmed by the Iranian ambassador to the IAEA.
And in 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered extensive proof that the Obama Iran nuclear deal was based on lies, but the world chose to side with the Shia doomsday regime — except, that is, for Donald Trump, who abandoned the nuclear deal and slapped new sanctions on Iran. As reported by Haaretz:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed a cache of documents he says proves Iran lied to the world about its nuclear program for years, even after the 2015 nuclear deal with the world. “Iran did not come clean about its nuclear program,” Netanyahu said in a prime time address in English. Iran, for its part, blased the speech as “propaganda.”
In 2021, Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned that Iran was enriching uranium at purity levels that “only countries making bombs are reaching.”
Iran has now returned to full denial mode despite its previous admission, while the IAEA also hides in denial, thus abandoning its duty to monitor Iran.
Now the IAEA says that it is in discussions with Iran, which means nothing, if the past is any indicator. As danger rises steadily from states that are armed with lethal weaponry, America under Joe Biden is absent and lost.
Iran Nuclear Inspectors Find Uranium Enriched to 84% Purity
by Jonathan Tirone, Bloomberg,
February 19, 2023:
(Bloomberg) — International atomic monitors in Iran have detected uranium enriched to levels just below nuclear weapons-grade, risking an escalation over Tehran’s expanding program.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is trying to clarify how Iran accumulated uranium enriched to 84% purity — the highest level found by inspectors in the country to date, and a concentration just 6% below what’s needed for a weapon.
Iran says its decades-long atomic program is for peaceful purposes but Western powers and Israel have accused it of working toward a nuclear bomb. Building a bomb would require further technical steps which have so far not been detected by the IAEA and a political decision to go ahead.
The development was reported by Bloomberg on Sunday, citing two senior diplomats. Iran had previously told the IAEA that its centrifuges were configured to enrich uranium to a 60% level of purity.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he had seen the report and is in close contact with the IAEA and European countries about the matter, adding he’ll have more to say when he has more information, according to comments made to reporters in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Monday.
The development comes as Iran is increasingly isolated from the West, nuclear talks with world powers are suspended and regional tensions have sharpened. Israel has blamed Iran for a Feb. 10 attack on an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea, that Iran has denied. It came about a fortnight after a drone strike on a weapons depot near Iran’s city of Isfahan that Tehran blamed on Israel, the latest incident in a string of suspected tit-for-tat attacks.
Iran has also faced widespread condemnation for its deadly crackdown on major protests and the US and European Union have tightened sanctions on Iran over its military support for Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Inspectors need to determine whether Iran intentionally produced the material, or whether the concentration was an unintended accumulation within the network of pipes connecting the hundreds of fast-spinning centrifuges used to separate the isotopes. It’s the second time this month that monitors have detected suspicious enrichment-related activities…..
Yeah, they accidentally enriched uranium from 60% to 84%!
The next accident could be a really big one. How long will Isreal wait before blowing Natanz to Hell?
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