{"id":16815,"date":"2024-11-20T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T01:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16815"},"modified":"2024-11-20T01:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T01:29:39","slug":"iran-suggests-pausing-high-levels-of-uranium-enrichment-to-avoid-censure-monitor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16815","title":{"rendered":"Iran Suggests Pausing High Levels of Uranium Enrichment to Avoid Censure, Monitor Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran has raised the possibility it would stop expanding its stockpile of uranium enriched to a purity of 60 percent \u2014 very close to the level needed for a weapon, the U.N.\u2019s nuclear watchdog says.<\/p>\n

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Iran is dangling the possibility of halting its production of near-bomb-grade nuclear fuel in exchange for avoiding formal condemnation for its years of blocking some United Nations nuclear inspectors from doing their jobs, according to atomic experts and a report from the U.N.\u2019s nuclear monitoring arm.<\/p>\n

The report, dated Tuesday and circulating privately among member states of the monitor \u2014 the International Atomic Energy Agency \u2014 says that during meetings the agency held in Tehran on Nov. 14, Iran raised the possibility that it would stop expanding its stockpile of uranium enriched to a purity of 60 percent, very close to the level needed for a weapon.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 16, the report added, the monitoring agency verified that Iran had \u201cbegun implementation of preparatory measures aimed at stopping the increase of its stockpile\u201d at its two major enrichment sites.<\/p>\n

David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a private group in Washington that tracks nuclear proliferation, said Iran\u2019s move came amid its \u201ccontinued lack of cooperation\u201d with U.N. inspectors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNow it\u2019s offering to cap its production in exchange for the I.A.E.A. board abandoning its push for a resolution\u201d that would condemn Iran\u2019s lack of cooperation, he said.<\/p>\n

The agency\u2019s board of member states is meeting<\/a> from Wednesday to Friday and will take up the resolution in a vote. If the measure passes, it would lead to a formal, detailed report that could ultimately send the issue to the U.N. Security Council for possible retaliatory measures against Iran.<\/p>\n

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Iran has raised the possibility it would stop expanding its stockpile of uranium enriched to a purity of 60 percent \u2014 very close to the level needed for a weapon, the U.N.\u2019s nuclear watchdog says.Iran is dangling the possibility of halting its production of near-bomb-grade nuclear fuel in exchange for avoiding formal condemnation for its years of blocking some United Nations nuclear inspectors from doing their jobs, according to atomic experts and a report from the U.N.\u2019s nuclear monitoring arm.The report, dated Tuesday and circulating privately among member states of the monitor \u2014 the International Atomic Energy Agency \u2014 says that during meetings the agency held in Tehran on Nov. 14, Iran raised the possibility that it would stop expanding its stockpile of uranium enriched to a purity of 60 percent, very close to the level needed for a weapon.On Nov. 16, the report added, the monitoring agency verified that Iran had \u201cbegun implementation of preparatory measures aimed at stopping the increase of its stockpile\u201d at its two major enrichment sites.David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a private group in Washington that tracks nuclear proliferation, said Iran\u2019s move came amid its \u201ccontinued lack of cooperation\u201d with U.N. inspectors.\u201cNow it\u2019s offering to cap its production in exchange for the I.A.E.A. board abandoning its push for a resolution\u201d that would condemn Iran\u2019s lack of cooperation, he said.The agency\u2019s board of member states is meeting from Wednesday to Friday and will take up the resolution in a vote. If the measure passes, it would lead to a formal, detailed report that could ultimately send the issue to the U.N. Security Council for possible retaliatory measures against Iran.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16817,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16818,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions\/16818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}