IAEA: Iran increasing uranium enrichment

IRAN has expanded its uranium enrichment programme instead of complying with a UN Security Council ultimatum to freeze it, the UN nuclear watchdog agency said yesterday.

IAEA: Iran increasing uranium enrichment

“Iran has not suspended its enrichment-related activities,” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report, making public a finding that clears the way for harsher sanctions against Tehran.

The IAEA detailed recent activities showing Tehran expanding its enrichment efforts — setting up hundreds of uranium-spinning centrifuges in an underground hall, and bringing nearly nine tonnes of the gaseous feedstock into the facility in preparation for enrichment.

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