After being attacked: Iran returns to producing advanced centrifuges in Karaj

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Iran has resumed advanced centrifuges at a site where the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency has failed to monitor or gain access for months, senior diplomats told the Wall Street Journal today (Tuesday). Western diplomats say Tehran could build a covert nuclear weapons program.

It was also reported that production resumed on a limited basis at the end of August at a plant in the northern city of Karag, about 42 km west of the capital Tehran, but since then production has increased and the Iranian government has even approved an unknown number of components needed for those centrifuges. The West has claimed that Iran has produced at least 170 parts of advanced centrifuges since August.These centrifuges are used to enrich uranium to higher levels.

Diplomats involved in the Iranian nuclear program also claimed that the Tehran authorities had deliberately moved the centrifuges to the site in Karaj, noting that there was no evidence that these parts had been moved elsewhere. , “They warned.

Recall, in Iran last June reported that unmanned aircraft hit the same plant. The New York Times later reported that the attack on the nuclear facility was carried out by a drone launched from Iran. The Iranian Atomic Energy Agency claimed that no damage was done and no casualties were reported.

Following the attack, Iran significantly tightened security procedures at the facility. “According to the IAEA, it prevented access to inspectors and thus failed to meet all the conditions to which it undertook when it allowed the agency’s inspectors to inspect the country’s nuclear equipment.” September 12, “the IAEA said.

Recall that in the shadow of the criticism against the state, it allowed the IAEA CEO, Raphael GrossiLast September, inspectors were brought into this facility for technical purposes, but at the end of that month she returned to it and claimed that she had never given such a permit.

Muhammad Zarif and Rafael Grossi in Tehran (Photo: Reuters)

Earlier this month, French authorities announced that the country and its allies were holding consultations, in order to reach a broad consensus on how to respond to Iran’s lack of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire told the Genders that “France and its partners are demanding that Iran secure its commitments, and that consultations on the response will continue.”

This report comes in the shadow of the impending return to the Vienna nuclear talks at the end of the month. The announcement came after the leaders of the European countries participating in the nuclear negotiations – French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, held a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome to coordinate positions ahead of the talks.

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