IAEA: Iran accelerates production of enriched uranium and centrifuges

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President of Iran Ibrahim Raisi Talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin He clarified that his country was “very serious about the nuclear talks,” which are due to resume on the 29th of this month in Vienna, in order to remove the sanctions against it. Putin expressed hope that in the talks “the parties will have a sufficient political will to get out of the current situation,” he said. But in the meantime, doubts are growing again about the seriousness of Iran’s intentions in the face of accelerating violations of the nuclear deal and its steps to acquire nuclear weapons.

IAEA Director General (International Atomic Energy Agency) Rafael Grossi will visit Iran next Monday and the next day will meet with Foreign Minister Amir Abdullahian and the head of the Atomic Energy Committee, Muhammad Islami. Grossi will be able to return to Vienna to open a session of the IAEA Board of Governors.

According to the IAEA’s quarterly report submitted to the Board of Governors, Iran continues to violate many of its commitments in the nuclear deal signed in 2015, which exceeded its uranium enrichment levels and enriched uranium reservoirs. A. Access in recent months and also no ability to install cameras in place.

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

According to the report, this is a significant impairment in the ability to restore the continuity of information there. This is a fundamental issue for the return to the nuclear agreement and there are questions that have not yet been answered about the origin of uranium remains at a number of disabled sites. Grossi expressed deep concern about the presence of those remains.

Iran continues to create problems in the oversight process and has not kept its promise to prevent invasive searches on the body of IAEA inspectors. May secretly transfer these parts to secret sites with the resumption of talks, where you can use them to enrich uranium for military purposes.However, at this stage there is no evidence of this.

Workers at a nuclear facility (Photo: REUTERS / Caren Firouz)Workers at a nuclear facility (Photo: REUTERS / Caren Firouz)

The activity at the Kharg facility ceased after an attack in June, which was attributed to Israel, and according to a report in the New York Times, was carried out using a UAV.
According to the current report, activity resumed to a limited extent as early as the end of August. Diplomats who spoke to the Wall Street Journal said it was unclear how many parts for advanced centrifuges Iran had produced since resumption of operations, but apparently that was enough for 170 such centrifuges.

The issue of advanced centrifuges is one of the main points of contention in the negotiations. Since it began violating the agreement, Iran has reportedly created more than 1,000 advanced centrifuges that can enrich uranium at high speeds, allowing it to shorten the time needed to “break in” to nuclear weapons in just one month. One of the diplomats quoted in the report noted that Iran had installed these centrifuges in the underground pine enrichment facility in Purdue.

Walla! Barak Ravid adds that White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan raised the idea a few weeks ago, in a conversation with his counterpart in Prime Minister Eyal Hulta’s office, that the US and the powers would reach an interim agreement with Iran aimed at freezing uranium enrichment and gaining time for negotiations. According to the report, Israel expressed reservations about the evil

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