Iran flexes its nuclear muscles
Deep inside a top-secret bunker in a top-secret mountain, Iranian scientists have reportedly started refining uranium. The fact that it’s a rumor does not worry the US as much as the fact the facility is hard to destroy, being in a mountain and all.
Nonetheless, quotes from unnamed diplomats in Vienna, where the International Atomic Energy Agency is based, have sent news outlets into a frenzy. The two men – whose involvement with the UN nuclear watchdog is hinted at simply by the fact of them being in Vienna – have supposedly told reporters Iran has already begun uranium enrichment to a fissile purity of 20 Fordo bunker is probably the weapons use "highly enriched per cent at the Fordo undersingle most controversial part uranium" (HEU) with over 90 ground site near the Shiite of Iran's nuclear program, per cent uranium-235. And it Muslim holy city of Qom. which Tehran says is peaceful might be a bit easier to get to
Iran, being the talkative but the West claims is aimed at 90 from 20 instead of three, but state that it is, has neither conbuilding an atomic bomb. The it’s still a long and hard way to go.firmed nor denied these rufact that Iran needs the 20 per T mors. The head of its Atomic cent enriched uranium to prohe long-simmering nuclear Energy Organization, Fereiduce nuclear fuel plates for the dispute has come to the boil in doun Abbasi, has said Fordo Tehran research reactor, recent weeks, with the West will be operational “in the which in turn produces radioiimposing new sanctions that near future”, but how near sotopes for cancer treatment, are having a real impact on that future is, exactly, has been does not seem to matter. After Iran's economy, and Iran releft open to interpretation. all, as some experts claim, the sponding with threats to the And interpret it unnamed dip20 per cent uranium can be transit of oil tankers through lomats who may or not work used to make a warhead, faster the Gulf that shook up marfor the IAEA did. and easier. What they convenkets.
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