IAEA ‘cannot assure’ Iran nuke program peaceful; Tehran has enough material for bomb

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Times Of Israel

With country’s enriched uranium stockpile now 19 times the 2015 limit, head of nuclear watchdog is ‘increasingly concerned’

AFP

7 September 2022

VIENNA, Austria — The UN’s nuclear watchdog said Wednesday it could not guarantee the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program, saying there had been “no progress” in resolving questions over the past presence of nuclear material at undeclared sites.

In a report seen by AFP, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it was “not in a position to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful.”

And a senior diplomat told the Reuters news agency that the uranium amount was enough — if enriched further — to construct a nuclear bomb.

The IAEA also said Iran was continuing to enrich uranium well over the limits laid down in the ailing 2015 deal, with its stockpile now over 19 times the limit set out in the accord.

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