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10/7/2022–|Last update: 10/7/202202:23 PM (Mecca)
Iran confirmed today, Sunday, that it had succeeded in producing 20% enriched uranium at the Fordow facility. In return, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said that Tel Aviv reserves for itself complete freedom of action against Iran and its nuclear project.
The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi, announced that Iran had produced 20% enriched uranium from the IR6 series of centrifuges that were placed at the Fordow facility two weeks ago and gas was pumped into it.
Kamalvandi added that Tehran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency two weeks ago of this step, but he indicated that there are special goals behind the way the news was circulated and amplified in the Western media, as he put it.
Kamalvandi also confirmed that the process of extracting 20% enriched uranium from these devices took place on Saturday, which is the final technical step in production.
He pointed out that this step was taken within the framework of the commitments of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to install and use 1,000 IR-6 centrifuges for uranium enrichment.
And the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report on Saturday that Iran had increased the level of uranium enrichment using an array of 166 advanced “IR6” centrifuges at the underground Fordow facility, which can easily switch between levels of uranium. fertilization;
Enhancing uranium enrichment at Fordow is the latest of several steps that Iran had long threatened to take, but refrained from implementing until the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors last month adopted a resolution criticizing Tehran for its failure to explain the presence of uranium traces at undisclosed sites.
In response to this decision, Iran ordered the removal of the Agency’s cameras installed under the 2015 agreement, and proceeded with the installation of IR6 centrifuges at an underground plant in Natanz, where the agreement allows it to enrich but only using IR-1 machines, at least Efficiency The agreement does not allow uranium enrichment at Fordow.
Israeli threat
In return, the Israeli prime minister called on the United States to re-impose economic sanctions on Iran in full force.
He added at the beginning of his weekly government meeting, that Israel reserves for itself the freedom of full action against Iran and its nuclear project at the political and military levels.
Lapid stressed that the international community’s response to Iran’s continued enrichment of uranium must be firm and meaningful.
In the same context, Lapid thanked US President Joe Biden for not lifting sanctions on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, saying that “Iran stands behind Hezbollah and supports Hamas and terrorist cells that recently tried to kill Israeli tourists in Istanbul.”
He stressed that Israel extends its hand to all countries in the region and calls on them to establish relations with them and change history, as he put it.
Regarding Biden’s visit to the region next week, Lapid indicated that he will discuss with President Biden and his team ways to expand joint cooperation in the security field in the face of all challenges.
Israel has repeatedly warned that it will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, even if this requires the use of military force.
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