Iran calls reports on reaching 84% uranium enrichment distortion of facts

20 February 2023

Iran considers the reports appeared in some mass media saying that the Islamic Republic of Iran has allegedly achieved uranium enrichment to 84% as a distortion of facts. Iran Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said this on Monday, commenting on a Bloomberg publication.


"The published news are fabrications and distortions of facts," he told ISNA. - The existence of highly enriched particles is a natural phenomenon in every enrichment process."

 

For example, in the process of enriching uranium to 20 percent, [the presence of uranium particles with enrichment levels up to] 47 percent is observed, and in the process of obtaining uranium at 60 percent, uranium with higher enrichment is also observed."


According to him, "Iran has not yet tried to enrich [uranium] above 60%."


Bloomberg reported Sunday, citing sources, that International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, following an inspection last week, found that Iran had obtained uranium enriched to 84 percent.

 

 

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Based on materials from TASS