Rafael Grossi visits Iran due to increasing enriched uranium reserves: “We are working to find solutions”

The diet of Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will continue its talks to clarify increase in Iranian reserves of enriched uranium at levels close to those required for manufacturing atomic bombs and other aspects of the Persian country’s nuclear program.

“We are working hard and our teams are working today to find solutions,” said the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Argentinian Raphael Grossiwho arrived in the Persian country yesterday to hold meetings with senior Iranian officials on the country’s nuclear activities.

The Argentinian claimed that the conversations with the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohamed Eslamitake place in “an atmosphere of work, honesty and cooperation”, and will continue throughout the day.

“I am sure that we will pave the way for important agreements with the constructive discussions that we have,” he said during a press conference with Eslami.

Grossi’s trip to the Iranian capital comes amid discussions between the UN body and the Persian country to increase its reserves of enriched uranium up to 60% purity at 40.5%, to 87.5 kilos.

In addition, the IAEA confirmed in a report last week that a sample taken in January from the Fordo underground facility (south of Tehran) returned particles of enriched uranium to the 83.7%which Iran attributed to “involuntary fluctuations”.

To manufacture nuclear weapons, you need enriched uranium with a purity of between 80 and 90%.

Tehran says it enriches its uranium for medical applications.

Eslami reiterated that his country has not enriched uranium above 60% and again underlined the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program.

Iran has been negotiating for months with Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, China and, indirectly, with the United States, the restoration of the 2015 pact, which limited the nuclear program of the Iran in exchange for the lifting of sanctions and which it abandoned in 2018. the then US President, Republican Donald Trump.

Since then, it has enriched 3,673.7 kilos of uranium of various purities (2%, 5%, 20% and 60%), beyond the 300 kilos authorized by the nuclear pact up to a maximum purity of 3, 67%.

(With information from EFE)

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