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VIENNA, March 8 (Reuters) – USA and Europe’s top powers expressed concern on Wednesday over Iran’s production of small amounts of uranium enriched to 84% purity, close to weapons-grade, and said Iran must explain how this happened.
The United Nations Nuclear Watchdog found particles of uranium enriched to 83.7% at a second site, mined in the mountain at Fordo, which enriched uranium up to 60%. The rate of weapons is about 90%.
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At the quarterly meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which consists of 35 countries USA“All members of the Council should be seriously concerned about this alarming development of the detected particles of 83.7 percent enriched uranium,” the statement said.
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“Iran to clarify what happened IAEA cooperate fully and promptly with and facilitate all appropriate inspection and monitoring measures deemed necessary by the Agency for immediate detection of any future incident. Iran must ensure that such an event does not happen again.”
He added that “the fact that these new developments are taking place in a heavily fortified facility that was originally built in secret only adds to our concern.”
The United States and the three most powerful countries in Europe – England, known as the E3, France and Germany have refrained from pushing for a resolution condemning Iran at this council session, but have made it clear that they may take action at a future session.
At the last quarterly meeting of the Council in November, Iran was informed about uranium particles found in three undeclared sites. IAEAA resolution on urgent cooperation was adopted with the years-long investigation.
Iran last weekend IAEAhas assured Rafael Grossini that he is ready to provide additional information to the long-stalled investigation. Iran and the IAEA released a joint statement on Saturday, detailing the pledge.
“E3 is particularly concerned about recent examples at Ford,” said a statement to the board Tuesday evening and published Wednesday.
“This is up to 83.7% of U-235 like unprecedented enrichment is an extremely serious escalation,” they said, adding that it “brings Iran dangerously close to actual weapons-related activities.”
Reporting by Francois Murphy; Edited by Toby Chopra
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2023-03-08 22:32:23
Source – reuters
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