Iran has virtually halted a previously rapid expansion of its uranium enrichment capacity in the past three months, the U.N. nuclear agency said in a report roughly covering the period since moderate Hassan Rouhani became president.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the United States to reject a deal that reportedly would ease sanctions on Iran in exchange for limiting uranium enrichment to 3.5 percent purity.
Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz told his American counterparts in the Israel-U.S. strategic dialogue that Israel’s “minimum” in any deal with Iran was no uranium enrichment.
Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build a nuclear bomb in as little as a month, according to a new estimate by a top American think tank.
Researchers at Symantec Corp. have uncovered a version of the Stuxnet computer virus that was used to attack Iran\’s nuclear program in November 2007, two years earlier than previously thought.
Iran claimed to have uncovered new deposits of uranium ahead of talks with world powers on its nuclear capacity.
U.N. nuclear inspectors have seen a small number of advanced centrifuges at an uranium enrichment plant where Iran has said it will install and operate them, a diplomatic source said on Thursday.
Iran announced that is converting some of its enriched uranium to reactor fuel.
Iran will upgrade the nuclear enrichment equipment at its Natanz nuclear plant.
Western and Israeli security experts suspect Syria may have tonnes of unenriched uranium in storage and that any such stockpile could potentially be of interest to its ally Iran for use in Tehran\’s own disputed nuclear program.
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