US - Iran Relations: Hassan Rouhani Says Uranium Can Be Enriched To Weapons Grade
07/14/21 AT 7:55 PM
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that the country is capable of enriching uranium up to 90% purity, which is weapons-grade.
Despite the comments, Rouhani said he hopes to revive the 2015 Iran Deal signed by the Obama administration.
Iran’s biggest obstacle in building nuclear weapons is obtaining enough highly enriched uranium in order to construct the bomb’s core. Iran has not yet tried to create nuclear weapons.
“Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization can enrich uranium up to 20% and 60%, if one day our reactors needed it, it can reach up to 90% purity,” Rouhani said.
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US Says Iran Nuclear Talks Will Continue Iranian President Rouhani said he hopes the incoming government can reach a deal with the US
The White House said on Wednesday that the US would continue negotiations with Iran to revive the nuclear deal despite an alleged Iranian plot to kidnap a Brooklyn-based journalist, an allegation Tehran denies.
“Making such an imaginary story is not unlikely by the US. Its entire short history is full of assassination, kidnapping and sabotage in other countries,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in response to the DOJ charges. The US tacitly endorses Israeli covert activity in Iran, which in recent years has included an assassination of an Iranian scientist and multiple explosions at nuclear facilities.
Iran Says It Can Enrich Uranium To Weapons-Grade By Ben Scheffer
on July 15 2021 9:55 AM The winner will take over in August as Iran s eighth president from incumbent Hassan Rouhani a moderate who has served the maximum of two consecutive four-year terms whose key achievement was the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that the country is capable of enriching uranium up to 90% purity, which is weapons-grade.
Despite the comments, Rouhani said he hopes to revive the 2015 Iran Deal signed by the Obama administration.
Iran’s biggest obstacle in building nuclear weapons is obtaining enough highly enriched uranium in order to construct the bomb’s core. Iran has not yet tried to create nuclear weapons.
July 15, 2021
The United States will continue to negotiate a mutual return to the landmark Iranian nuclear accord, despite allegations of an Iranian-orchestrated plot to kidnap an American journalist, US officials said Wednesday.
According to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday, four Iranian operatives have been charged over a conspiracy to kidnap Masih Alinejad, a Brooklyn-based Iranian dissident and author who fled Iran in 2009. Prosecutors say the Iranian spy network had surveilled Alinejad and were planning to forcibly take her to Iran, “where the victim’s fate would have been uncertain at best.”
The four alleged operatives remain at large in Iran and a California-based woman suspected of supporting the operation was arrested and arraigned last week, the Department of Justice said. A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called the allegations against them baseless and ridiculous.”
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