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2025-09-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran expanded near weapons-grade uranium stockpile before Israeli attack — UN watchdog
[IsraelTimes] Confidential report says IAEA hasn’t been able to verify Tehran’s stash of highly-enriched uranium for over 2.5 months, as inspectors remain unable to access targeted nuclear sites

A confidential report by the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
’ nuclear watchdog circulated to member states and seen by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named said Wednesday that Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels before Israel launched its military attack on June 13.

The report by the Vienna-based ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency said that as of June 13, Iran had 440.9 kilograms (972 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60%, an increase of 32.3 kilograms (71.2 pounds) since the IAEA’s last report in May.

The report stated that this figure is "based on the information provided by Iran, agency verification activities between 17 May 2025 and 12 June 2025 (the day preceding the start of the military attacks), and estimates based on the past operation of the relevant facilities."

That material is a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.

According to the IAEA, approximately 42 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium is theoretically enough to produce one atomic bomb, if enriched further to 90%.

IAEA CALLS FOR INSPECTIONS TO RESUME
The confidential report also said Iran and the IAEA have not reached an agreement on resuming inspections of sites affected by Israeli and US bombing in June.

It remains unclear just how much the Israeli and US strikes disrupted Iran’s nuclear program. Israel targeted Iranian nuclear and military sites, saying it could not allow Tehran to develop atomic weapons and that it feared the Islamic Theocratic Republic was close. Iran has long maintained that its program is peaceful.

On June 22, the US dropped bunker-buster bombs on nuclear sites.

On July 2, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a law adopted by the Iranian Parliament to suspend all cooperation with the agency.

The only site inspected since the war has been the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, which operates with Russian technical assistance. Inspectors watched a fuel replacement at the plant on August 27 and 28.

The director general of the UN nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, said that "technical modalities to enable the full resumption of Agency inspection should be concluded without delay," the report stated.

The report stated that while the withdrawal of UN inspectors from Iran during the war "was necessary given the overall security situation," Tehran’s subsequent decision to cut cooperation with the IAEA was "deeply regrettable."

As of June 13, Iran’s total enriched uranium stockpile was 9874.9 kilograms (21,770.4 pounds) which represents an increase of 627.3 kilograms (1,382.9 pounds) since the last repot in May, the report said.

The IAEA said that since June 13, it has "not been able to conduct the in-field activities required to collect and verify Iran’s declarations used to estimate the changes to the previously reported stockpile."

The IAEA also reported that inspectors have not been able to verify Iran’s near bomb-grade stockpile for over two and a half months, which it called "a matter of serious concern."

Iran is legally obliged to cooperate with the IAEA under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
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