IAEA confirms Iran’s plans to produce metal uranium
The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed Iran’s plans for the production of metal uranium with the aim of producing a new…
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Iran MPs praise AEOI’s move to resume 20% uranium enrichment
The majority of Iranian lawmakers have hailed the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI)’s move to restart the enrichment of uranium at…
Pompeo says Iran should not enrich uranium at any level
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the outgoing administration’s most vocal Iran hawk, has said the Islamic Republic should not enrich uranium at…
Deputy FM says Iran will stop 20% enrichment if US lifts sanctions
The Iranian deputy foreign minister for political affairs says Iran can resume its nuclear obligations “swiftly and easily” once the United States…
Iran can easily enrich uranium to 90% purity, says AEOI spox
A senior official at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says the country can easily enrich uranium to levels above 20 percent, even…
EU will ‘redouble efforts’ for JCPOA preservation, full implementation: Spox
The European Union has pledged to make more efforts to preserve the 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement with Iran, after Tehran announced the…
Iran UN envoy says nuclear steps reversible if all comply with commitments
Iran’s permanent envoy to UN emphasized that the Iranian government’s top priority is the annulment of sanctions’ effects relying on domestic capabilities,…
Iran enriching about 9 kg of uranium to 20% per month says nuclear chief
Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday that Iran is now producing 17 to 20…
China urges calm, Russia warns against overdramatizing as Iran ramps up uranium enrichment
China has invited all sides involved in Iran’s “sensitive” nuclear issue to exercise restraint, while Russia has warned that there is nothing to…
Iran deputy FM says 20% uranium enrichment does not mean JCPOA death
Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that Iran began uranium enrichment at 20% upon the parliament’s decision,…
Iran can ‘easily’ go for enrichment above 20%: AEOI spox
Stating that Iran has produced 20% enriched uranium in 12 hours, Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said the…
Russia says Iran’s nuclear activities ‘fully transparent, verifiable’
Russia says Iran’s recent decision to enrich uranium to up to 20 percent has “nothing to overdramatize,” and that the country’s nuclear…
IAEA says Iran has enriched uranium up to 20%: Envoy
Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the Vienna-based international organizations said on Monday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed…
FM Zarif says Iran resumes 20% enrichment as per parliament’s approval
Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif wrote in a Twitter message that as the Parliament legislated, Iran resumed 20-percent enrichment of uranium. “We resumed…
Iran starts 20% uranium enrichment at Fordow facility: Govt. spox
Iran has started the process of producing uranium with 20% enrichment at Fordow facility, said the government spokesman. In a brief talk…
Iran tells IAEA it plans to enrich uranium up to 20% at Fordow site
Iran has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog it plans to enrich uranium to 20% purity, a level it achieved before its…
E3 says Iran plan to ramp up enrichment ‘deeply worrying’
France, Germany and Britain say they are worried by an Iranian plan to install additional, advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges at Natanz nuclear facility. The three…
Iran tells IAEA it will accelerate underground uranium enrichment
Iran plans to install hundreds more advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges at an underground plant in breach of its deal with major powers, a…
AEOI tasked with supplying over 20% enriched uranium
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) is tasked with supplying uranium with a richness of over 20%. The Iranian Parliament, in its…
Iran enters new phase of enrichment: Envoy
Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Kazem Gharibabadi said on Sunday that injecting uranium hexafluoride, or UF6, into…
Iran ‘doesn’t have significant quantity’ of material for bomb: IAEA chief
Iran does not at this stage have enough enriched uranium to make one nuclear bomb under the U.N. atomic watchdog’s official definition,…
1,044 centrifuges enriching uranium in Fordow: official
MNA – Spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said 1,044 centrifuges are enriching uranium in Fordow Nuclear…
Iran has capacity to enrich uranium at any percentage: nuclear agency
Reuters – Iran has the capacity to enrich uranium at any percentage if Iranian authorities decide to do so, the deputy head…
Trump says ‘No, thanks!’ to talks with Iran as Tehran boasts enrichment capacity
i24news – Iran’s top diplomat said still willing to talk to US if sanctions lifted US President Donald Trump has rebuffed the…
US misleading world on Iran’s right to enrichment: Russia
Tasnim – The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned recent remarks by US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook about Tehran’s nuclear activities, saying…
Tehran now enriching more uranium than before 2015 deal: Iran’s Rouhani
Press TV – President Hassan Rouhani says Iran is now enriching more uranium than it did before inking a nuclear deal with…
Iranian enriched uranium stocks reach 800 kg, authorities say
TASS – The Iranian stocks of enriched uranium has reached 800 kg, head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi…
Iran able to reach 20,000-SWU enrichment capacity in a month: Nuclear chief
Tasnim – Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said the country is capable of increasing the…
Iran adds to breaches of nuclear deal with enrichment push: IAEA report
Reuters | Francois Murphy: Iran is enriching uranium at its underground Fordow site and rapidly accelerating enrichment more broadly, a report by the U.N.…
Iran able to enrich uranium up to 60%, says atomic energy agency spokesman
Reuters – Iran has the capacity to enrich uranium up to 60%, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI)…
IAEA to verify uranium enrichment at Iran’s Fordow: Official
Tasnim – Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are going to verify the resumption of nuclear enrichment at Iran’s Fordow…
Europe yet to decide on response to Iran uranium enrichment: Merkel
Reuters – Europe has not yet taken a decision on how to respond to Iran’s decision to resume enriching uranium, which is…
‘Step in the wrong direction’: US fumes as Iran expands uranium enrichment beyond nuclear deal limits
RT – Washington is up in arms over Tehran’s decision to further scale back its commitments under the same nuclear deal that…
Iran to return to uranium enrichment level before 2015 deal
IRNA – Iran will soon return to uranium enrichment level that had before 2015 nuclear deal, said a senior Iranian official on…
Uranium enrichment resumes at Iran’s Fordow nuclear site
IRNA – Uranium enrichment at Fordow nuclear facility began on early Thursday as per an executive order by President Hassan Rouhani in…
Iran will enrich uranium to 5% at Fordow underground nuclear site: official
Reuters – Iran will enrich uranium to 5% at its underground Fordow nuclear facility on Wednesday, its nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi…
Iran enrichment may hit 20% if impasse drags on
Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: As prospects died for a face-to-face meet this week in New York between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and…
Spokesman: Iran’s 4.5% enriched uranium stockpile increases to nearly 370kg
FNA – Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi announced that the volume of the country’s 4.5% enriched…
24 tons of uranium enriched since JCPOA, says Iranian official
IRNA – Iran has enriched 24 tons of uranium since the nuclear deal was signed, an Iranian lawmaker quoted the country’s nuclear…
Iran’s enrichment to 4.5 percent not a proliferation issue: Expert
IRNA – A Vienna-based Canadian Consultant on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues strongly believes that Iran’s decision to enrich uranium to 4.5…