Iran halts uranium enrichment under nuclear deal
Source: Guardian
Iran has halted its most sensitive uranium enrichment work as part of a landmark deal struck with world powers, state television said.
The broadcast said Iran had stopped enriching uranium to 20% which is just steps away from being capable of producing fuel for an atom bomb by cutting the link that feeds the cascades enriching uranium in Natanz.
"Voluntarily halting the production of 20% uranium enrichment is the major measure that we are undertaking on Monday by noon," Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's nuclear chief told the official IRNA news agency, referring to a nuclear deal agreed in November between Iran and world powers.
State media reports said international inspectors were present on Monday when Iran began implementing its obligations under the historic deal reached in Geneva on 24 November. They left to monitor the suspension at Fordo, another uranium enrichment site in central Iran.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/20/iran-halts-uranium-enrichment-nuclear-deal
Cha
(296,872 posts)Botany
(70,448 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,919 posts)Benghazi!!!!!!!! (as more Neo-con heads explode!)
7962
(11,841 posts)I will GLADLY post an admission that I was wrong if Iran's nuclear program is no longer a problem in the future.
And the President and Sec of State will deserve all the credit for the deal if it works.
madokie
(51,076 posts)Is it tomorrow, next week, next year or forever?
come on be honest with us
7962
(11,841 posts)I dont think you can say "See, told ya so!" if they go back on their word a decade from now. Then it becomes a new problem. Because even if we got them to get rid of EVERYTHING now, they could always start over at some point.
I'm only speaking of the current program and whether or not the Iranians will actually stop their nuclear quest.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)justification for attacking Iran.