Iran enriching uranium at 60% purity, bringing it closer to weapons-grade quality

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The semi-official news agency IRNA reported: "In a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran has informed the agency that it has started enriching uranium to 60% purity at Fordo site using IR-6 advanced centrifuges."
49% : Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board of governors passed a resolution ordering Iran to cooperate with its investigation into uranium traces found at three undeclared sites.
47% : Iran has started producing enriched uranium at 60% purity at its underground Fordo nuclear plant, according to official media.
45% : The deal - formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA - had eased sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme.
44% : It added that the change at Fordo, about 62 miles south of Tehran, is a response to a resolution by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog.
38% : The US then re-imposed sanctions, and Tehran backed away from its part of the deal in response.
35% :Iran's nuclear chief Mohammed Eslami told Iranian media: "We had said that Iran will seriously react to any resolution and political pressure... that is why Iran has started enriching uranium to 60% purity from Monday at the Fordo site."
34% : Earlier this month, the IAEA said Iran has increased its stockpile of highly-enriched uranium and in a report, the body's director Rafael Grossi said he was "seriously concerned" that Iran had still not engaged with the investigation into its nuclear activities.
32% : Iran dismissed the resolution - the second this year targeting Iran over the IAEA investigation - as "politically motivated".

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