IAEA confirms Iran now enriching uranium to 60%

 

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Iran to Acquire 60% Enriched Uranium Next Week: Envoy - Tasnim News Agency

 (Tasnim) – Iran has begun enriching uranium hexafluoride to the purity level of 60% in two cascades of newer generation of centrifuge machines and will accumulate the product next week, Iranian envoy to the IAEA said.

Iran boosts uranium enrichment capacity to 16,500 SWUs: atomic chief - Global Times

Iran has increased its uranium enrichment capacity to 16,500 separative work units (SWUs), Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), announced on Wednesday, official Islamic Republic News agency reported.

Iran to Increase Uranium Enrichment to 60% if Needed: Ayatollah Khamenei - Tasnim News Agency

(Tasnim) - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khameneni on Monday said Iran is not after production of nuclear weapons.

Iran to expel IAEA inspectors if US sanctions not removed by Feb. 21: lawmaker - China.org.cn

A senior Iranian lawmaker warned on Saturday that Iran will expel the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors if the U.S. anti-Iran sanctions are not lifted by Feb. 21, semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

Iran says it has resumed 20% uranium enrichment at Fordow site - The Jerusalem Post

Iran has resumed 20% uranium enrichment at an underground nuclear facility, the government said on Monday, breaching a 2015 nuclear pact with major powers and possibly complicating efforts by US President-elect Joe Biden to rejoin the deal.

Putin removes ban on nuclear cooperation with Iran

President Vladimir Putin on Monday lifted a ban on Russian firms from working on Iranian enrichment sites as he travelled to Tehran for his first visit since 2007.   

Turkey has no intention of and no technology for the production of nuclear weapons, Turkeys energy minister says.

Claims in the German daily Die Welt that Turkey is seeking to acquire enriched uranium with the goal of building a nuclear weapon, were denied by Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz on Wednesday.

"Turkey has no intention and no technology for nuclear weapons production" said Yildiz. "Turkey is a member of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and audited by the organization. Also Turkey is a party of 4 main concerned agreements."

Yildiz stated that Turkey has no uranium enrichment operation, saying the claims in German newspaper Die Welt are a political campaign to discredit the government.

Tony Abbott: Australia bans uranium sales to Russia. (will set up an embassy in Kiev in show of solidarity)

SYDNEY: Australia on Wednesday (Sep 3) banned uranium sales to Russia over its actions in Ukraine while announcing it will set up an embassy in Kiev and may offer military assistance.
The announcement by Prime Minister Tony Abbott came just days after Canberra said it would toughen its sanctions against Moscow so they match those of the European Union. Abbott told parliament uranium sales were on hold until further notice. "Australia has no intention of selling uranium to a country which is so obviously in breach of international law as Russia currently is," he said.

Moscow concerned about unjustified accumulation fissile materials. -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Moscow is concerned about the accumulation of weapons-grade fissile materials in some countries that have no nuclear weapons and hopes the United States will play a more active role in solving this issue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the opening on the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague on Monday, March 24.
“Along with the programme to return fresh and irradiated highly-enriched uranium from Russian-design nuclear research reactors to Russia, launched in 2002, we have also been converting the cores of these reactors from using highly-enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium or halting their operation altogether,” the minister said.

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