Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
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IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
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has further increased its total stockpile of uranium, according to a report by the UN nuclear watchdog seen by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Monday, and it continues to bar the agency’s most seasoned inspectors from monitoring its nuclear program.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency also said in a second confidential report, distributed to member states, that Tehran made no progress in explaining the presence of manmade uranium particles found at two locations.
The IAEA estimated in its quarterly report that as of February 10, Iran’s total enriched uranium stockpile was at 5,525.5 kilograms (about 12,182 pounds), an increase of 1,038.7 kilograms (2,289 pounds) since the last quarterly report in November 2023.
It also said that according to its assessment, Iran has an estimated 121.5 kilograms (267.8 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60 percent purity, which represents a decrease of 6.8 kilograms (14.9 pounds) since the last report in November 2023.
The decrease is the result of Iran having diluted some of its 60% enriched uranium in recent weeks with lower-grade material.
According to the IAEA’s definition, around 42 kilograms (92.5 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60% is the amount at which creating one atomic weapon is theoretically possible. The 60% purity is just a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
Between June and November last year, Iran slowed down the enrichment to 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) per month, but then increased the rate again to 9 kilograms (19.8 pounds) at the end of the year, the IAEA reported.
Eric Brewer, deputy vice president of the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Iran could potentially make several nuclear bombs.
"Iran has enough 60 percent material for roughly three nuclear weapons if further enriched to 90 percent. When you include Iran’s stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium and 5 percent, it has enough material for several additional bombs," Brewer said.
"Iran would only need a couple of weeks to produce that weapons-grade material, but probably much longer—a year or more—to build an actual bomb it could deliver," he added.
In the second report, the IAEA said Iran’s government has not responded to the nuclear watchdog’s request about the origin and current location of manmade uranium particles found at two locations that Tehran has failed to declare as potential nuclear sites, named Varamin and Turquzabad.
The IAEA has accused Iran of stonewalling such an investigation over the past five years. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
Tehran made some progress by providing "a possible explanation" for the undeclared uranium particles for another location called Marivan in 2023. Western officials have suggested the so-called safeguards probe of the undeclared sites could confirm longstanding suspicions that Iran had a nuclear weapons program up until 2003.
The report also said there was no progress thus far in reinstalling more monitoring equipment, including cameras, removed in June 2022. The IAEA stated their inspectors were allowed to "service the cameras at the workshops in Esfahan, but without providing access to the data recorded by those cameras."
Since June 2022, the only recorded data is that of the cameras at the centrifuge workshop in Isfahan in May 2023 — although Iran has not provided the IAEA with access to this data.
Iran responded to criticism by the US, Britannia, La Belle France, and Germany on those issues by barring several of the IAEA’s most experienced inspectors from monitoring its nuclear program in September 2023.