Iran Has Begun 60% Uranium Enrichment – Chief Nuclear Negotiator

The Trump Administration had Iran on their knees, because of crippling economic sanctions. Iran also knew that President Trump would authorize a military option if all else failed. As such, President Trump could have negotiated a rational deal with Iran, that would have prevented the terror state from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Those days are long gone. Today, Iran’s leaders know that the Biden Administration is desperate to re-enter the JCPOA. They know that every  provocation will be tolerated by the Biden Administration appeasers.

However, Israel will not subscribe to those rules. Right now Israel and and Iran are trading blows. How long before Israel reaches a breaking point, and launches a full scale military attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities?

Prime Minister Netanyahu: “Israel will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.” #Iran pic.twitter.com/h5WZrfmt78

— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) April 12, 2021

The Iranians love appeasement, and they will drive a truck through weakness. That’s why our Administration led with strength, not weakness when it came to negotiations with them.

— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) April 12, 2021

America is safer when the Ayatollah doesn’t have the money to fund its nuclear program and proxy terror. And they said we couldn’t do it… pic.twitter.com/0dajwHRqpD

— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) April 13, 2021

Iran has begun 60% uranium enrichment – chief nuclear negotiator

Araqchi also announced that Iran will introduce 1,000 more centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear facility

By Jerusalem Post, April 13, 2021

Iran announced that it will begin enriching uranium up to 60% at the Natanz nuclear facility attacked earlier this week, which would be an unprecedented level for the Islamic Republic, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday.

Fissile material must reach 90% purity to be used for a nuclear weapon. Under the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran was meant to enrich uranium to under 5%, until it expired in 2030.

Chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi also said Iran would install 1,000 more centrifuge machines in Natanz, the nuclear site whose regular and emergency electrical grids exploded on Sunday, in an act that Iran has called terrorism by Israel. Sources have confirmed that the Mossad was behind the explosion.

Before 2015 and since Iran began violating the nuclear deal in 2019, Iran enriched its stock to about 20%.

Even the jump to 20% set off alarms globally as taking a major additional step toward a nuclear weapon – especially since there is no viable civilian use for 20% enriched uranium.

But to date, Iran has not enriched uranium up to 60%, often referred to as the next level for jumping toward a nuclear weapon.

US President Joe Biden has called for Iran to return to compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the world powers’ 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran is called, in exchange for the US lifting sanctions placed on Iran in recent years and an American return to the JCPOA.