DUBAI: Iran has denied reports that it has enriched uranium to 84 percent purity, which is close to weapons grade. The Islamic Republic has been enriching uranium to up to 60 percent purity since April 2021. Three months ago it started enriching to that level at a second site, Fordow, which is dug into a mountain. Weapons grade is around 90 percent.
“So far, we have not made any attempt to enrich above 60 percent. The presence of particles above 60 percent enrichment does not mean production with an enrichment above 60 percent,” the spokesperson for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said on Monday, according to the official IRNA News agency.
Bloomberg News reported on Sunday that UN nuclear watchdog monitors had last week detected uranium enriched at 84 percent.
Kamalvandi called the report “slanderous” and said it distorted facts.
Iran denies enriching uranium above 60 percent — IRNA
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Iran denies enriching uranium above 60 percent — IRNA
- UN nuclear watchdog monitors had last week detected uranium enriched at 84 percent
Qatar says attacks on region’s energy facilities have global repercussions
- Qatar foreign ministry spokesperson said attacks on energy facilities are a dangerous precedent that will cause economic loss in the region and as well as global repercussion
DOHA: Qatar warned on Tuesday that attacks on regional energy infrastructure during the Middle East war would be felt economically throughout the world.
“The attacks on energy facilities that have happened, also on both sides, are a dangerous precedent... it will cause repercussions throughout the world,” foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said.
Iran has pressed its attacks against Qatar's infrastructure, he said.
“The targeting of civilian infrastructure continues... and we rebuke any justification that the Iranians are offering for these attacks,” al-Ansari said.
On Iran, the foreign ministry spokesperson said the Iranian president's statement of apology has not been translated into action, after cities in Bahrain and the UAE were hit by Iranian missiles.
