Iran followed Russia's path on nuclear power and revealed its intentions before the E3 meeting
The IAEA had passed a resolution condemning Iran's nuclear program in a meeting of the Board of Governors. Even before the resolution was passed, Iran had been constantly warning of changes in its nuclear policy, but Britain, France and Germany (E3) had ignored Tehran's threats.
On Friday, Iran is going to hold talks with these E3 countries regarding its nuclear program, but before that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has once again reiterated Tehran's warning. Araghchi has said that if European countries impose sanctions on Iran again in the UNSC, then it may change its nuclear policy.
'Iran may change its nuclear policy'
According to The Guardian report, Iran's Foreign Minister has said that 'if European countries re-impose sanctions on Iran in the United Nations Security Council, the nuclear debate within Iran could move towards the possibility of acquiring nuclear weapons.'
He said, 'There is a debate going on in Iran and among most people whether we should change this policy or not, because the policy adopted so far regarding the nuclear doctrine has actually proved to be inadequate.
Warning before important meeting with E3
Referring to the upcoming meeting between Iran and the three European powers on November 29 in Geneva, Araghchi described it as essentially a “brainstorming session” to try to find out if a way out of the current impasse can be found.
Consideration of putting uranium feedstock into centrifuges
On the other hand, Reuters, citing a report of the IAEA, has reported that Iran has informed the IAEA, the agency monitoring nuclear programs, that it is considering putting uranium feedstock into the 8 IR-6 centrifuge cascades installed in Fordo, so that it can be enriched up to 5% purity.
Iran has informed the IAEA that it can test intermediate and full cascades of 174 IR-4, IR-6, or IR-2M centrifuges at 15 R&D production lines at the PFEP in Natanz.
The report said Iran has told the IAEA that it wants to enable six of these R&D production lines to operate independently or as an interconnected pair of cascades, and that these lines would produce uranium enriched up to 5%.
Iran is moving towards making nuclear weapons!
On Wednesday, Mohammad Islami, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Institute, said, "We have started putting gas in thousands of advanced centrifuges, which are part of the Nuclear Industry Development Program. We have put them in the operational circuit." According to Islami, this action taken by Iran is a response to the IAEA's condemnation resolution. According to reports, putting gas in these advanced centrifuges is a process of enriching uranium, which can ultimately be used to develop nuclear weapons.