VIENNA: The US and Europe's top powers on Wednesday (Mar 8) expressed alarm at Iran having produced a tiny amount of uranium enriched to 84 per cent purity, very close to weapons grade, and said Iran must explain how it happened. The UN nuclear watchdog found uranium particles enriched to up to 83.7 per ce
VIENNA: The US and Europe's top powers on Wednesday expressed alarm at Iran having produced a tiny amount of uranium enriched to 84 per cent purity, very close to weapons grade, and said Iran must explain how it happened.
"With respect to the detected particles of uranium enriched to 83.7 per cent, all Board members should be gravely concerned by this alarming development," a US statement to a quarterly meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation Board of Governors said. The United States and Europe's top three powers - Britain, France and Germany, known as the E3 - have refrained from pushing for a resolution condemning Iran at this board meeting but they made clear they could act at a future session.
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