Iran said Wednesday it has produced around 30 kilograms of 20%-enriched uranium, in defiance of United Nations sanctions imposed on Tehran to suspend the contentious nuclear work.
Iran
said Wednesday it has
produced around 30 kilograms of 20%-enriched uranium, in defiance of United
Nations sanctions imposed on
Tehran
to suspend the
contentious nuclear work.
"We have produced nearly 30 kilograms of 20% enriched uranium so
far,"
Iran
's atomic chief Ali
Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by ISNA news agency.
World powers, led by the
U.S.
, want
Iran
to suspend its uranium
enrichment activity, which is at the centre of fears that
Iran
is developing a nuclear
weapons.
Enriched uranium can be used as fuel to power nuclear reactors as well as to
make the fissile core of an atom bomb.
World powers backed new U.N. sanctions against
Iran
on June 9 after they
were infuriated by
Iran
's decision to enrich
uranium to 20%, which theoretically brings it closer to the 90% purity used to
make a nuclear weapon.
Iran
denies its atomic
program is aimed at making weapons.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered
Iran
's atomic body in
February to start refining uranium to 20% after a nuclear fuel swap deal
drafted by the U.N. atomic watchdog and aimed at providing fuel for a
Tehran
research reactor hit a
deadlock.
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