The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says that in accordance with the request of the United Nations, he asked to stop the enrichment of uranium at a high level, but Iran is still continuing to enrich uranium at a high level, which is not used for commercial purposes.
Raffaele Mariano Grossi, who spoke to Reuters news agency after briefing the European Union’s foreign ministers on Iran’s nuclear program and the level of uranium enrichment, said that although Iran has been enriching uranium since last year. Kol has slowed down a bit, but he also said that Iran is enriching about 7 kg of uranium to 60 percent every month.
Uranium enriched to 60% is close enough to be used in weapons and is not used for commercial purposes to generate nuclear power.
Although Iran always insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and it does not build nuclear weapons, no country in the world has enriched uranium to such a high level without using it in weapons. Not used elsewhere.
Mr. Grossi warned last week at the meeting of the heads of international governments in Dubai that Iran is not completely transparent about its nuclear program.
This senior official of the United Nations said in a meeting in Dubai “When it comes to nuclear activities, Iran presents a facade that is not entirely transparent”. Mr. Grossi added that such actions by Iran increase the risk.
Iran has started enriching uranium at a high level since 2018, when the nuclear agreement signed with world powers in 2015 was destroyed.
Since that date, Tehran has accumulated enough enriched uranium that it can build nuclear weapons if it wants to.
However, the United States intelligence agencies and other countries that monitor Iran’s nuclear program are of the opinion that Tehran has not yet started building nuclear weapons.
In the 2015 agreement with world powers, including the United States, Iran was allowed to enrich the currency up to 3.67 percent, but in 2018, when the previous president of the United States The president withdrew his country from this agreement and reimposed all sanctions on Iran, Iran increased uranium enrichment at a high level.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said that from June to November of last year, Iran was enriching three kilograms of uranium every month, but at the end of the year, it increased to nine kilograms.
Despite the fact that the Iranian authorities have always insisted that their nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes and that they do not intend to build nuclear weapons, the authorities of this country have been announcing that around 2022 they have enriched uranium to the level of It is used in making nuclear weapons.
Kamal Kharazi, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, told Al Jazeera TV last year that the country is technically capable of developing a nuclear bomb, but has not yet decided whether to build one. Do it or not.
Ali Akbar Salehi, the former head of the country’s atomic energy agency, said on Iran’s state television some time ago that Tehran has all the necessary materials to build nuclear weapons.
Mr. Salehi said in this interview, for example, that for a car, which parts are used, Iran has the same parts to make a nuclear bomb.
He said, “We have all the pieces of nuclear science and technology. They are in our hands”.