Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran
IRAN said today its decision to escalate its nuclear energy programme was a response to the “evilness” of Israel’s apparent attack on its nuclear facility at Natanz.
Iran is planning to enrich uranium to 60 per cent, its highest ever level for the country. Under the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran was restricted to enriching it to 3.67 per cent, though it had ceased compliance with this limit already because of the US decision to withdraw from the agreement. Weapons-grade uranium must be enriched to 90 per cent.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the weekend sabotage of the Natanz underground facility, which damaged centrifuges used to refine uranium, was “apparently a crime by the zionists” and was aimed at derailing talks on reviving the 2015 deal under way in Vienna.
In part one of two articles, STEVE BISHOP exposes blatant lies of the warmongers who demand ‘unconditional surrender’ from Iran using the excuse of nuclear weapons, when it is Israel that blatantly disregards international law
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports from Parliament Square, where a rally slammed the hypocrisy of allowing Israel to bomb Iran and kill hundreds to stop it developing nuclear weapons — the same weapons Israel secretly has and refuses to explain
