Iran Reportedly On Cusp Of Making Nukes Having Enriched Uranium To 84% Purity

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53% : Director-General Rafael Grossi noted that the agency was in talks with Iran regarding the results of recent inspections, the tweet added.
52% : The IAEA said in a tweet that it was "aware of recent media reports relating to uranium enrichment levels in Iran."
52% : Iran hasn't submitted required forms declaring its intention to raise uranium enrichment levels at two facilities near the towns of Natanz and Fordow, according to one diplomat.
49% : Iran had previously told the IAEA that its centrifuges were configured to enrich uranium to a 60% level of purity.
47% : Until now, Iran had been known to have enriched uranium to 60%, while a purity of 90% is needed to produce nuclear weapons.
47% : As Bloomberg notes, inspectors now 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.
46% : The International Atomic Energy Agency is trying to clarify how Iran accumulated the uranium enriched to 84% purity -- the highest level found by inspectors in the country to date.
43% : Inspectors from the UN atomic agency discovered uranium enriched to 84% purity in Iran last week, a level just below that needed for nuclear weapons, Bloomberg reported Sunday, citing two unnamed senior diplomats.
42% : After Washington withdrew, claiming the deal did not go far enough in preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the Iranians dropped many of their own commitments to the pact and ramped up uranium enrichment.
42% : Iran said in November it had begun producing uranium enriched to 60% at Fordo, an underground facility that reopened three years ago after the breakdown of the JCPOA.
39% : The latest development comes as Iran is increasingly isolated from the West and nuclear talks with world powers remain suspended.
39% : The JCPOA gave Iran sanctions relief in return for the curbs and inspections of its nuclear facilities.
38% : The news comes just hours after earlier in Sunday, Israel blamed Iran for a Feb. 10 attack on an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea.
36% : The country has also faced widespread condemnation for its crackdown on major protests and the US and European Union have tightened sanctions on Iran over its military support for Russia's war on Ukraine.
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.
33% : In a joint response at the time, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany dismissed Iran's claim as "inadequate." Also in January, IAEA Director-General Grossi told European Parliament lawmakers Iran had "amassed enough nuclear material for several nuclear weapons -- not one at this point."
32% : Iran said it provided "explanations" to the inspector who reported the change and that he then "realized his mistake."

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