Tehran: Iran on Friday started enriching uranium to 60 percent purity, its highest level ever, after being attacked by a target targeting the Nuclear Plant. The speaker gave this information from the country’s parliament. State television quoted Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf’s comment, but no information was given as to what amount of Iran’s intent was to increase it.
However, there is a possibility of increasing tension with this step. That too at a time when Iran is negotiating with world powers in Vienna on how to bring the US back to the agreement and the Islamic Republic to be relaxed by tougher economic sanctions. The importance of this declaration increases further after the centrifuges were damaged in an attack on the Iranian nuclear establishment last week. Israel is suspected of an attack. Israel has not yet claimed the attack, although it is widely suspected that the attack on Iran’s main enrichment establishment, Natanz, is being expressed.
State television quoted Kalibuff as saying, “The will of the Iranian nation is going to create miracles and it will thwart any conspiracy.” He said that enrichment started just after midnight on Friday. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, the country’s civil nuclear branch, has not immediately confirmed the move.
It is also not clear why the announcement was made by the radical Kalibuff, a former leader of the paramilitary force Revolutionary Guards. He is also named as a possible presidential candidate in the upcoming elections in Iran in June. Uranium enrichment has not yet been done by Iran at 60 percent purity. However, it is still less than the 90 percent level required for weapons.
