Iran's Nuclear Enrichment Advances Amid Inspector Ban
IAEA reports Iran's uranium stockpile has reached 22 times the limit of the 2015 accord, with enough enriched uranium for multiple bombs.
- Iran continues to bar several experienced nuclear inspectors, and has enough uranium enriched to up to 60 percent purity, close to weapons-grade, for three atom bombs, according to confidential reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
- The IAEA has slammed Iran’s decision to withdraw the accreditation of several inspectors as “extreme and unjustified” and said it “directly and seriously affected” the agency’s work.
- Iran’s estimated stockpile of enriched uranium had reached more than 22 times the limit set out in the 2015 accord between Tehran and world powers.
- The IAEA has warned Tehran has enough enriched uranium for “several” nuclear bombs if it chose to build them.
- No progress has been made on the IAEA's request that Iran explain the origin and current location of manmade uranium particles found at two locations that Tehran has failed to declare as potential nuclear sites.