U.N. Agency Confirms Iran Produced Enriched Uranium Close to Weapons Grade

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% :Iran has been producing highly enriched material of 60% purity since early 2021, higher than any other nonnuclear weapons state, according to the IAEA.
51% : The IAEA said Iran claimed in a letter this was the result of "unintended fluctuations in enrichment levels."Weapons-grade enriched uranium is generally considered to be from around 90%-enriched uranium"Discussions between the Agency and Iran to clarify the matter are ongoing," the report said.
49% :Iran has greatly expanded its nuclear work since 2019, a year after the Trump administration took the U.S. out of the 2015 nuclear accord.
46% : Under the 2015 agreement, Iran was only supposed to enrich uranium up to 3.67% for 15 years.
38% : If Iran deliberately starts producing weapons-grade material, it could lead to crisis over the country's nuclear activities.
37% : European diplomats have said that would be the trigger for them to move to formally kill a 2015 nuclear agreement, which lifted most international sanctions on Tehran in exchange for strict but temporary limits on Iran's nuclear work.

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