Iran has started the production of 60 % uranium in the Fordo complex, in a move confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency and condemned European countries.
Iran announced this week that it is taking measures to respond to a decision of the International Atomic Energy Agency criticizing Tehran’s lack of cooperation with the agency.
And the Iranian student news agency (Esna) reported that “Iran has started to produce 60 % uranium uranium in Fordo’s nuclear complex.
” The head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammadi Islami, later confirmed the information.
It is necessary to make a 90 % enriched atomic bomb, so fertilization by 60 % constitutes an important step towards uranium enrichment to the level used in weapons.
Iran has always denied that it has any ambition to develop a atomic bomb, stressing that its nuclear activities are for civil purposes only.
For its part, the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Tehran began producing enriched uranium by 60 % in the Fordo Nuclear Complex.
“In his latest report to member states, general manager Rafael Mariano Grossi said that Iran has started production of highly enriched uranium, in the Fordo nuclear complex, to add this to production in Natanz since April 2021,” said the International Atomic Energy Agency in a statement sent to Agence France -Presse.
In turn, London, Paris and Berlin condemned Tehran’s expansion of its nuclear program, saying that he has no “reasonable civil justification” and that it “challenges the global order not to spread” nuclear weapons.
The three governments added that, by starting the production of the listed uranium by up to 60 percent in its complex in Fordo, “Tehran has taken other important steps in undermining the joint comprehensive work plan” in reference to the nuclear agreement concluded in 2015.
In 2015, Tehran concluded an agreement on its nuclear program with six major powers, the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, after years of tension and arduous negotiations.
Under the agreement, Tehran agreed to stop the operation of the Fordo complex and reduce its enrichment of uranium to a 3. 67 %threshold, which is enough for most civil uses, as part of a package of restrictions imposed on its nuclear activities in order to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon.
The agreement allowed the lifting of many penalties imposed on Tehran, in exchange for reducing its nuclear activities and ensuring a peaceful program..
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