VIENNA (AP) — Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands, a confidential report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said Thursday.
VIENNA — Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands, a confidential report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said Thursday.
The IAEA chief, Rafael Mariano Grossi, has previously warned that Tehran has enough uranium enriched to near-weapons-grade levels to make “several” nuclear bombs if it chose to do so. He has acknowledged the U.N. agency cannot guarantee that none of Iran’s centrifuges may have been peeled away for clandestine enrichment.
The IAEA report further says that Tehran has also not reconsidered its September decision to ban the agency's inspectors from monitoring its nuclear program and that IAEA surveillance cameras remain disrupted. The IAEA report comes just days after Iran’s supreme leader opened the door to renewed negotiations with the United States over his country’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, telling its civilian government there was “no harm” in engaging with the “enemy.”
“The continued production and accumulation of high enriched uranium by Iran, the only non-nuclear weapon state to do so, adds to the agency's concern,” it concluded. The IAEA report also said the agency verified that Tehran had completed the installing of eight cascades of IR-6 centrifuges at its underground plant at Fordo and the installation of 10 out of 18 planned cascades of IR-2m centrifuges and at the underground site in Natanz, where another two cascades are being installed.
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