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To: Owen
Yes, enrichment less than 20% U-235 is considered Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) and is considered usable for power generating and research reactors. Whether Iran Has a “right” to LEU depends on its usage and various international agreements, as well as independent monitoring of enrichment facilities, reactors, laboratory facilities, etc.

Iran has categorically refused international monitoring, and violated even the joke of the Obama era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA) before the ink was dry. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and others have determined that the number of centrifuges in use far exceeds those needed for LEU production to meet Iran's non-weapons needs. By all accounts, Iran has been been enriching U-235 to weapons grade levels for some time and is estimated to be on the brink of developing nuclear weapons. Iran has no “right” to High Enriched Uranium (HEU), nor to develop nuclear weapons.

Anyone who believes Iran will agree to meaningful outside inspection, and keep to LEU is delusional.

28 posted on 04/16/2025 1:20:00 PM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: nuke_road_warrior

By all accounts, of years past, Iran was on the threshold of just a few weeks and having a nuclear bomb.

It’s been a few weeks for many years now.

And if they have all these claimed surplus centrifuges, then they already have nuclear weapons (and have not used them) given past predictions of timeline, or they do not have them after all this time and that suggests that either they are not pursuing weapons grade, or that our intelligence about the matter is worthless.


29 posted on 04/16/2025 2:51:41 PM PDT by Owen
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