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‘Only countries making bombs’ are enriching uranium at Iran’s level, IAEA chief says
CNBC ^ | MAY 26 2021

Posted on 05/26/2021 8:39:19 AM PDT by SJackson

The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency has expressed alarm over Iran’s nuclear program, spelling out his concern in an interview with the Financial Times this week.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told the newspaper in an interview published Wednesday that the situation was “very concerning.”

Earlier this week, Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog agreed to extend an expired monitoring agreement by a month. Grossi’s warning comes amid high tensions between Iran and the world powers that signed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as negotiations between those countries to revive the deal are underway.

“A country enriching at 60 percent is a very serious thing — only countries making bombs are reaching this level,” Grossi told the FT.

“Sixty percent is almost weapons grade, commercial enrichment is 2, 3 [percent].”

While he said it was Iran’s “sovereign right” to develop its program, which Tehran insists is for civilian energy purposes only, he added: “This is a degree that requires a vigilant eye.”

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TOPICS: Egypt; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: egypt; gaza; hamas; iaea; iran; israel; jihadists; obamanation; syria; waronterror

1 posted on 05/26/2021 8:39:19 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

We should send them some more....................


2 posted on 05/26/2021 8:40:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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he said it was Iran’s “sovereign right” to develop its program

Not really, they're a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, bound by and in violation of it's terms

3 posted on 05/26/2021 8:40:37 AM PDT by SJackson (Whom will insane lust for power spare, if it dares violate ties of kin & friendship? Dominic Mancini)
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To: KC_Lion

Surprise! Surprise!


4 posted on 05/26/2021 8:40:56 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SJackson

As a sovereign nation, they can decide to get out of the treaty. But they’d have to make a formal declaration, I think. WTH use are such treaties, anyway. The only people who sign them have no intention of abiding by them. Israel never signed this treaty, and never confirmed that we had nukes, either. Keep them guessing so they don’t want to f@#$ with us. On the other hand, Ghaza knows we would never nuke them, so they constantly f@#$ with us.


5 posted on 05/26/2021 8:44:54 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: Army Air Corps

Too many people on this earth. Half will have to get off. It’ll happen. Whakos getting the bomb, the virus, an asteroid. Let’s not forget the Yellowstone volcano Lew Rockwell’s site reminds us of from time to time. How many of them can we control?


6 posted on 05/26/2021 8:45:35 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: Eleutheria5
But they’d have to make a formal declaration, I think

Yes, they'd have to withdraw like North Korea did.

7 posted on 05/26/2021 8:45:54 AM PDT by SJackson (Whom will insane lust for power spare, if it dares violate ties of kin & friendship? Dominic Mancini)
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To: Red Badger

8 posted on 05/26/2021 8:46:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Just a 10% kickback for the big guy!


9 posted on 05/26/2021 8:51:26 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: SJackson

Bomb them.

🇮🇱


10 posted on 05/26/2021 8:52:57 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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Israel and other countries better get in front of this before there is a nuclear war...


11 posted on 05/26/2021 8:55:04 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: SJackson

What a load of horse crap.

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows the a-holes are building a bomb.

I guess we should be happy they have to build it, and the Obama/Biden Administration hasn’t just sent them a bunch of already manufactured ones for free.


12 posted on 05/26/2021 9:04:36 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, of course, the key element.

Hopium.


13 posted on 05/26/2021 9:06:08 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Red Badger

Yeah. About a mega tone.


14 posted on 05/26/2021 10:18:42 AM PDT by Track9 (Dealing with democrats is like living without toilet paper. )
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To: SJackson

So of course, Biden must enable it.


15 posted on 05/26/2021 12:02:44 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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