Posted on 03/04/2023 6:05:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Tehran (AFP) – UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said Saturday he had "constructive" talks with Iranian officials in Tehran after the discovery of uranium particles enriched to near weapons-grade level.
In his series of meetings with Iranian officials, Grossi met President Ebrahim Raisi.
Raisi acknowledged that "cooperation is a two-way street... (and) can continue based on maintaining the agency's independence and the rights of the Iranian nation," the political deputy of Iran's presidency, Mohammad Jamshidi tweeted.
Grossi arrived Friday in Iran amid deadlock in negotiations on reviving a landmark 2015 accord on Iran's nuclear activity, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA.
Uranium particles enriched up to 83.7 percent -- just under the 90 percent needed to produce an atomic bomb -- had been detected at Iran's underground Fordo plant about 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Tehran, according to a confidential IAEA report seen by AFP this week.
Iran denies wanting to acquire atomic weapons, and says it had made no attempt to enrich uranium beyond 60-percent purity.
Iran's government has said, however, that "unintended fluctuations... may have occurred" during the enrichment process.
The discovery came after Iran had substantially modified an interconnection between two centrifuge clusters enriching uranium, without declaring it to the IAEA.
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UN BLAH BLAH BLAH again and then it’s back to Global Warming
5 posts before breakfast Oldeconomybuyer? Wow. Up mean and surly this morning.
A fluctuation that resulted in a 50% “error”? WUT?
Go ahead, Aholes, push it past 70% for your goal — and let the explosion in your pipelines go.
Critical reactions, not a boom but an energetic Psst have occurred in just swirling a slurry around in a flask. This kills everyone in the vicinity.
So, go ahead. It won’t destroy a lab with a mushroom cloud but it will “permanently” close the lab and wipe out the “scientists” who permitted such sloppy engineering.
What a F****ing moron! Does this clown actually believe Iran will abide by ANY agreement???
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