[🇮🇷] Iran's Nuclear Program

[Saif]

France, Germany, Britain condemn Iran's steps to expand nuclear programme
Published :
Jun 15, 2024 18:04
Updated :
Jun 15, 2024 18:04

The logo of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is displayed at the agency's headquarters on the opening day of a quarterly meeting of its 35-nation Board of Governors in Vienna, Austria, June 3, 2024. Photo : REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

France, Germany and Britain on Saturday condemned Iran's latest steps, as reported by the IAEA, to further expand its nuclear programme.

"Iran has taken further steps in hollowing out the JCPoA, by operating dozens of additional advanced centrifuges at the Natanz enrichment site as well as announcing it will install thousands more centrifuges at both its Fordow and Natanz sites." the joint statement said, referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed with Iran in 2015.

"This decision is a further escalation of Iran's nuclear programme, which carries significant proliferation risks," it added.

The joint statement stressed that "Iran's decision to substantially increase its production capacity at the underground Fordow facility is especially concerning".

"Iran is legally obliged under the Non-Proliferation Treaty to fully implement its safeguards agreement, which is separate to the JCPoA."​

 

[Saif]

IAEA chief tours sensitive Iran nuclear plants

The UN nuclear chief toured two Iranian uranium enrichment plants that have been the focus of Western concern on Friday after Tehran said it was ready to address ‘doubts’ about its ambitions.

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IAEA chief tours sensitive Iran nuclear plants
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 15 November, 2024, 22:29

The UN nuclear chief toured two Iranian uranium enrichment plants that have been the focus of Western concern on Friday after Tehran said it was ready to address ‘doubts’ about its ambitions.

The visit to Iran by International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi comes after he warned ‘the margins for manoeuvre are beginning to shrink’ over its nuclear programme.

On Friday, Grossi visited the Natanz and Fordo enrichment plants in central Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported.

He was accompanied by Iran’s atomic energy organisation spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi, photographs posted by IRNA showed.

Expectations have run high that US president-elect Donald Trump will take a harder line with Tehran when he takes office in January, although the New York Times reported Thursday that his tech billionaire ally Elon Musk had met Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations in a bid to defuse tensions.

Neither the Trump transition team nor Iran’s mission to the United Nations immediately confirmed the encounter with ambassador Saeed Iravani. The Iranian mission said it had no comment.

During his first term in the White House, Trump unilaterally abandoned a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers and reimposed blistering economic sanctions in a policy of ‘maximum pressure’.

Tehran eventually responded by rolling back its own commitments under the deal, which barred it from enriching uranium to above 3.65 per cent.

The IAEA says Iran has significantly expanded its stocks of uranium enriched to 60 per cent, a level that has triggered international alarm as it is much closer to the 90 per cent level needed for a nuclear warhead.

Iran is the only non-nuclear-weapon state to enrich uranium to 60 per cent, the UN agency has said.

Samuel Hickey of the Washington-based Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said Grossi’s tour of the two plants was ‘significant for both technical monitoring and symbolic reasons’.

‘Natanz serves as Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility, while Fordo houses some of its most advanced centrifuges,’ Hickey said.

Fordo ‘is among Iran’s most proliferation-sensitive sites,’ he added.

Hickey said that by allowing Grossi to visit the plants Iran ‘is signalling that the easiest access to these facilities is through diplomatic engagement.’

Grossi’s visit comes ahead of a meeting of the IAEA’s board of governors later this month at which Britain, France and Germany could propose a new resolution critical of Iran.

In talks with the IAEA chief in Tehran on Thursday, president Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran was ready to resolve any ‘doubts and ambiguities’ about its nuclear ambitions.

But in his meeting with Grossi, Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami threatened instant ‘countermeasures’ if the board adopts an ‘interventionist resolution’.

‘Iran wants to both act like it will cooperate so as to undermine support for a harsh board resolution,’ while also threatening retaliation if the board passes one, Institute for Science and International Security head David Albright said.

The outgoing administration of President Joe Biden expressed scepticism about the show of cooperation by Tehran.

‘Ultimately, what we want to see from Iran is actual behavioural change and action, not just signs of something or indications of something,’ State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said.​

 

[Lulldapull]

So the demand from the west is for Iran to disarm and surrender almost all its missiles and drones and shut down its space program too in exchange for trade and tourism.

In other words become toothless like Sawdi Judea or Turkey or Pakistan.

 

[Sharma Ji]

So the demand from the west is for Iran to disarm and surrender almost all its missiles and drones and shut down its space program too in exchange for trade and tourism.

In other words become toothless like Sawdi Judea or Turkey or Pakistan.

Wonder if Fargam the space monkey is still alive. I was super happy upon reading that they'd bought him back unharmed 10 odd years ago.

 

[Sharma Ji]

rejoice !

Yes, Fargam, the monkey that Iran launched into space in 2013, is alive and well:

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  Fargam is living in a center at the Royan Institute, along with the other Iranian space monkey, Aftab.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

 

[Lulldapull]

rejoice !

Yes, Fargam, the monkey that Iran launched into space in 2013, is alive and well:

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  Fargam is living in a center at the Royan Institute, along with the other Iranian space monkey, Aftab.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Oh bhai yous benefited tremendously upon the dissolution of the USSR. Your entire space program was gifted to yous by that Yeltsin ka suar. France helped yous out too in your SLV endeavors. Same same with your Sukhoi and HAL Nasik etc. Pakistan gets all weaponry from China after a prod from the US state dept no?

Irans a strategic competitor to Russia and China both. And both Russia and China strictly abide by US sanctions on Iran.

Only recently the Russians have given Iran something like access to its Glonas and some ECM/ ISR gear and launched a few satellites for commercial use.

 

[Sharma Ji]

Oh bhai yous benefited tremendously upon the dissolution of the USSR. Your entire space program was gifted to yous by that Yeltsin ka suar. France helped yous out too in your SLV endeavors. Same same with your Sukhoi and HAL Nasik etc. Pakistan gets all weaponry from China after a prod from the US state dept no?

Irans a strategic competitor to Russia and China both. And both Russia and China strictly abide by US sanctions on Iran.

Only recently the Russians have given Iran something like access to its Glonas and some ECM/ ISR gear and launched a few satellites for commercial use.

Goes back much further than Yeltsin, I think Brezhnev se bhi purana rishta in Russian help for Indian space program. I an very very very very distantly (like next galaxy distance) .. "related" to Rakesh Sharma from the old Soyuz program

Present day, but, we making our own ek se ek tanatan space rockets, gslv, pslv programs etc

Iran will rocket ahead once/if it gives up it's Israel/Jew obsession. Same like Saudia they'll become, drowning in petrodollars and shekels.

I'd take that deal in a hot second, throw the Palestinians under the bus and profit away.. what a loser drag investment their hamas, hizbullah and houthi proxies have been for them.