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...But after Trump withdrew the US from the agreement, Tehran responded by aggressively ramping up its programme, installing advanced centrifuges and enriching uranium to a purity of 60 per cent — the highest-ever...
...Once the centrifuges, syringes and needles became contaminated with HIV, the disease spread rapidly through local populations....
...Using a 16-centrifuge cascade system, they enriched uranium to a higher level than normal to produce 20kg of Haleu, the first time the fuel has been produced on US soil....
...The Iranian regime’s enriched uranium stockpiles are more than 18 times the JCPOA limit and it has also built and installed advanced centrifuges....
...Two “cascades” of advanced centrifuges enriching uranium were configured in a way that “substantially” differed from what Iran’s nuclear authorities had declared to the IAEA, the agency reported....
...Even if Moscow was unwilling to transfer fissile material directly, it could instead offer Pyongyang composite carbon fibre materials to upgrade centrifuges used to produce highly enriched uranium, warns...
...He added that if the White House had managed relations better, “the Saudis would have come to us sooner to let us know this was under way, instead of giving us a 24-hour heads up.”...
...Iran has blamed the US for the failure of the nuclear talks....
...A year later it restarted enriching uranium towards 60 per cent while also installing advanced centrifuges. The 60 per cent level was reached in April 2021....
...Iran, which is enriching uranium close to weapons grade, signalled this week it would continue expanding its nuclear activity by announcing that an additional 1,000 advanced centrifuges had been installed...
...Iran’s nuclear chief, Mohammad Eslami, said on Thursday that Tehran had already begun removing cameras and started installing new centrifuges....
...These are used to monitor activities including the production of centrifuge parts and research and development....
...Gideon RachmanSo give us a sense of the numbers....
...US president Joe Biden has said his administration will rejoin the accord and lift many sanctions if Iran returns to full compliance....
...But since 2019 it has been using advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium at close to weapons grade, and recreated a stockpile of the fuel that the previous deal virtually eliminated....
...The so-called breakout time was “continuously lessening” as Iran enriched more uranium, with more efficient centrifuges, he added....
...Iran’s maximalist demands may moderate but there is no turning back from its technological advances with modern centrifuges for fast enrichment of uranium for nuclear fuel....
...The US still has some cards to play....
...Third, even if Iran goes back to 2015-level enriched uranium stockpiles and agrees to dial down the level of purity far below weapons grade, it has installed a new generation of centrifuges — in place of...
...I don’t know whether the centrifuge is necessary for 7 Diamonds’ next cruise, planned for the Turks and Caicos. But the centrifuge is seriously cool....
...That, along with its new uranium stockpile, is reversible; but the speed of its new centrifuges amount to a new reality....
...It has developed advanced centrifuges; is enriching uranium way above the 3.67 per cent agreed in the JCPOA, and its stockpile of enriched uranium is more than 11 times the 300kg ceiling agreed....
...It has also developed new centrifuges so it can produce more enriched uranium more rapidly. “Qualitatively, there’s been an important advancement,” Grossi said....
...That would mean another race of sanctions versus centrifuges, and further turmoil in the region, none of which would benefit anyone....
...And he's going to walk us through what we have. Yeah so we have a cultured chicken salad with a little mandarin vinaigrette. Are you going to try it for us, and tell us what it tastes like?...
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