A nuclear power plant in Iran. Photo: Tasnim News Agency via Wikimedia Commons.
CNBC: Iran is breaching its uranium stockpile limit under the nuclear deal. Here’s what that actually means
* Iran has now exceeded its internationally-agreed stockpile limit of low-enriched uranium, breaching a key tenet of the 2015 nuclear deal that the Donald Trump administration abandoned last year.
* The move comes amid rapidly escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran and against the backdrop of an Iranian economy buckling under the weight of U.S. sanctions.
* Nuclear experts told CNBC this still leaves Iran a long way from having the capability to build a bomb.
Iran has now exceeded its internationally-agreed stockpile limit of low-enriched uranium, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Monday, breaching a key tenet of the 2015 nuclear deal that the President Donald Trump administration abandoned last year.
The move comes amid rapidly escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran and against the backdrop of an Iranian economy buckling under the weight of U.S. sanctions, which had previously been lifted under the Obama-era deal in exchange for limits on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
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Update: How Close Is Iran to a Nuclear Bomb, Really? (Foreign Policy)
WNU Editor: This is what one UN expert is saying .... Former UN Nuclear Official: Iran 6-8 Months Away From A Nuclear Weapon (June 5, 2019).
6 comments:
That's a heck of a "deal" they were given...
The theocracy will still fall with or without nuclear weapons. They don't have the money beyond lining their pockets. The Iranians will survive, but the ayatollahs not so much.
anon
which deal...the one Trump broke?
The Iranian nuke deal, where inspectors could not look at nuclear facilities on Iranian military bases?
That effing bad deal?
Their (Lapides) belief is rather touching
Yep, that was a deal that the Iranians couldn't have asked for more if they wrote it themselves.
Of course Trump broke it, it prevented nothing except buy Iran time and money.
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