Uranium enrichment News
Earthmovers crawl across the gravel. Cranes rise from the scorched valley. Bulldozers inch towards the gates. Inside the Fordow nuclear complex in Iran, machines work without pause.
One of Iran’s largest and most critical nuclear plants, the Natanz site came under heavy bombardment from Israeli forces as part of a wider military operation targeting Iranian nuclear and military infrastructure.
The obsession began long before headlines declared centrifuges spinning in Natanz or uranium being enriched to near-weapons grade. It dates back to 2002, when secret Iranian nuclear facilities came to light.
The declaration comes at a time of sharply increased U.S.-Iranian confrontation, a year after Washington quit the pact and reimposed sanctions that had been lifted under the accord in exchange for Tehran curbing its nuclear work.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which monitors Iran`s nuclear programme under the deal, confirmed in Vienna that Tehran had breached the limit.
Pakistan, which conducted its first nuclear tests in 1998 is believed to have around 120 nuclear weapons, more than India, Israel and North Korea.
Pakistan under dictator General Zia-ul-Haq broke its promise on uranium enrichment in the 1980s, a series of newly declassified documents have shown.
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