Iran nuke inspectors detect uranium at 84% purity

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The IAEA responded on Sunday and said it is discussing with Iran the results of the agency's recent verification activities and will inform its board of directors as appropriate, according to a tweet citing IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi.
49% : Iran had previously told the IAEA that its centrifuges were configured to enrich uranium to a 60% level of purity.
47% : Inspectors need to determine whether Iran intentionally produced the material, or whether the concentration was an unintended accumulation within the network of pipes connecting the hundreds of fast-spinning centrifuges used to separate the isotopes.
37% : International atomic monitors in Iran last week detected uranium enriched to levels just below that needed for a nuclear weapon, according to two senior diplomats, underscoring the risk that the country's unrestrained atomic activities could prompt a new crisis.
36% : A senior Iranian nuclear official denied Iran had enriched uranium beyond 60% purity "so far" and dismissed the development as "a smear and a distortion of the facts.""The existence of uranium particles above 60% does not mean the same thing as enrichment above 60%," Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran told the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
36% : The incident came about a fortnight after a drone strike on a weapons depot near Iran's city of Isfahan that Tehran blamed on Israel.
34% : The development comes as Iran is increasingly isolated from the West and nuclear talks with world powers remain suspended.
27% : Earlier on Sunday, Israel blamed Iran for a Feb. 10 attack on an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea.
22% : The country has also faced widespread condemnation for its deadly crackdown on major protests and the U.S. and European Union have tightened sanctions on Iran over its military support for Russia's war on Ukraine.

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