UN report: Uranium particles enriched to 83.7% found in Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : A student looks at Iran's domestically built centrifuges in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 8.
52% : But Fordo, which sits under a mountain near the holy Shiite city of Qom, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) southwest of Tehran, remains a special concern for the international community.
50% :"Iran informed the agency that 'unintended fluctuations' in enrichment levels may have occurred during the transition period," the IAEA report said.
49% : Iran's mission to the United Nations told the AP that Massimo Aparo, a top IAEA official, visited the Islamic Republic last week "and checked the alleged enrichment rate.""Based on Iran's assessment, the alleged enrichment percentage between Iran and the IAEA is resolved," the mission contended.
47% : The IAEA report only speaks about "particles," suggesting that Iran isn't building a stockpile of uranium enriched above 60% -- the level it has been enriching at for some time.
44% : The confidential quarterly report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency distributed to member states likely will raise tensions further between Iran and the West over its nuclear program.
44% : "Discussions between the agency and Iran to clarify the matter are ongoing."
44% :Speaking in Berlin, Israel's visiting foreign minister, Eli Cohen, pointed to two options to deal with Iran -- using a so-called "snapback" mechanism in the Security Council resolution that enshrined the 2015 nuclear deal to reimpose U.N. sanctions, and "to have a credible military option on the table as well."
42% : Any explanation from Iran, however, likely won't be enough to satisfy Israel, Iran's regional archrival.
41% : "To the best of our knowledge, we don't believe that the supreme leader in Iran has yet made a decision to resume the weaponization program that we judge they suspended or stopped at the end of 2003," CIA Director Williams Burns told CBS' "Face the Nation" program.
40% : While the IAEA's director-general has warned Iran now has enough uranium to produce "several" bombs, months more would likely be needed to build a weapon and potentially miniaturize it to put it on a missile.
39% : Uranium at nearly 84% is almost at weapons-grade levels of 90% -- meaning any stockpile of that material could be quickly used to produce an atomic bomb if Iran chooses.
39% : The U.S. intelligence community, as recently as this past weekend, has maintained its assessment that Iran isn't pursuing an atomic bomb.
36% : The U.S.' unilateral withdraw from the accord in 2018 set in motion a series of attacks and escalations by Tehran over its program.
35% : That's even as Tehran already faces internal unrest after months of protests and Western anger over sending bomb-carrying drones to Russia for its war on Ukraine.
34% : Already, Israel's recently reinstalled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened military actions against Tehran.
32% : And Israel and Iran have been engaged in a high-stakes shadow war across the wider Middle East since the nuclear deal's collapse.
30% :Iran has been producing uranium enriched to 60% purity -- a level for which nonproliferation experts already say Tehran has no civilian use.
29% : Meanwhile Tuesday, Germany's foreign minister said both her country and Israel are worried about the allegations facing Iran over the nearly 84% enriched uranium.

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