AGI – TheIran has tripled its production of uranium enriched to 60%close to Level required for a nuclear weaponbrings them to nine kilograms per month in the last few weeksreversing the downward trend of recent months, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced today.
“This represents an increase of about three kilograms per month since June and a return to a monthly rate of nine kilograms in the first half of 2023,” the UN agency said in a statement.
On November 15, the IAEA announced that Iran has 128.3 kilograms of 60 percent nuclear fuel, which is less than 90 percent needed to build a nuclear weapon but well above the 3 percent mark. 67 percent cap set by the 2015 agreement, which the United States unilaterally decided to abandon three years later.
USA, very worried
The United States is “deeply concerned” about an IAEA report on Iran’s increased production of highly enriched uranium. This was said by a spokesman for the White House National Security Council. “Iran’s nuclear escalation is even more concerning at a time when Iranian-backed proxies continue their dangerous and destabilizing activities in the region, including recent ones fatal attack of drone and other attack attempts in Iraq and Syria and the attacks Houthis against merchant ships in Iran, in the Red Sea,” the spokesman said.
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