Posted on 07/06/2021 7:21:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Iran told the UN’s nuclear watchdog on Tuesday that it plans to produce uranium metal enriched to up to 20% purity for reactor fuel in a move that the US branded “provocative.”
Such a development would put Tehran in further breach of a 2015 nuclear accord negotiated under the Barack Obama administration. The deal bans all work on uranium metal since it can be used to make the core of a nuclear bomb. It committed Iran to sourcing such material from abroad rather than producing it domestically.
“We have made clear that such provocative steps would not and will not provide Iran with any leverage in negotiations,” US State Department spokesman Ned Price said. “We continue to urge Iran to stop this brinkmanship.”
Britain, France and Germany backed the US calls for Iran to back down, issuing a joint statement saying they noted the IAEA announcement with “grave concern.” …
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The Israelis will be very busy being ‘creative’. Good for them.
“We continue to urge Iran to stop this brinkmanship.” - U.S. State Dept.
Robin Williams, commenting on the unarmed British Bobbies, “Halt!, or I shall be forced to say Halt again!”.
They're shaking in their turbans. The negotiations are over a surrender schedule, nothing more. One more, and perhaps the most dangerous, of the "cancel everything Trump did" mania of this lunatic administration.
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