Iran has allegedly enriched 60% pure uranium at other sites since April 2021, but the decision to do so at its underground Fordow facility presents significant escalation.
, meaning the country far exceeded the 3.67% cap the deal had mandated.
Former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visits the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant just outside Bushehr, Iran, Jan. 13, 2015. The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, Iran continues to produce more uranium metal, which can be used in the production of a nuclear bomb, in a move that further complicates the possibility of reviving a landmark 2015 deal with world powers on its nuclear program.
Iran has done so at other sites, but the Fordow site is an underground facility where Iran will likely test its most sensitive nuclear work, Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Fox New Digital. Ben Taleblu noted that Iran has enriched uranium to 60% at other sites since April 2021, but the Fordrow development represents a more troubling step in Iran's path to a nuclear weapon.
This file photo by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran Nov. 5, 2019. Negotiations to bring the United States back into a landmark nuclear deal with Iran are set to resume Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Vienna amid signs of progress, but also under the shadow of an attack this week on Iran's main nuclear facility.
"More advanced centrifuges and a greater purity of enriched uranium at Fordow is Iran’s way of signaling not just its comfortability, but
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