How the World Let Iran Get to 84% Uranium Enrichment - The Media Line

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : That's how the world allowed Iran to get to 84% enrichment.
52% : When the belligerent end-of-the-worlder, Holocaust-denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), things started heating up greatly.
48% : A combination of wishful thinking, greed and complacency has led to the current state of affairs, but the solution is simple and does not involve military strikes by Israel or the United StatesBloomberg first reported last week that inspectors in Iran had detected uranium specks enriched up to 84% purity.
47% :Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), says the country has not so far enriched uranium beyond 60%, arguing that "the existence of uranium particles above 60% in the enrichment process does not mean enrichment above 60%."
47% : Iran's nuclear enrichment program is more advanced than previously known and "if they chose to cross that line," Tehran would only need a "matter of weeks" to enrich uranium capable of powering a nuclear weapon, CIA director William Burns told CBS News this week.
45% : The United Nations' Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has not refuted the report, stating that, "the IAEA is discussing with Iran the results of recent agency verification activities."
45% : But according to an Associated Press report on February 24, Iran "directly acknowledged an accusation attributed to international inspectors that it enriched uranium to 84% purity for the first time, which would put the Islamic Republic closer than ever to weapons-grade material."
41% : As time went on, US president after US president vowed that Iran would never be allowed to achieve its goal on his watch.
41% : Time and again, the bellicose Ahmadinejad kept vilifying the Great Satan and its sidekick Israel for having the gall to demand that Iran abandon its program while his two main adversaries had their own arsenal of nuclear weapons.
32% : The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) regarding Iran's nuclear problem has stated since 2003 that the mullahs running Iran have, on their own and through their goodwill, ceased all activities aimed at acquiring the bomb.

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