The 26 December 2023 report by the IAEA highlights that Iran has elevated its fee of manufacturing of uranium enriched as much as 60% at Natanz and Fordow to ranges noticed between January and June 2023. These findings characterize a backwards step by Iran and can lead to Iran tripling its month-to-month manufacturing fee of uranium enriched as much as 60%.
We condemn this motion, which provides to the unabated escalation of Iran’s nuclear programme. The manufacturing of high-enriched uranium by Iran has no credible civilian justification and the reported manufacturing on the Fordow Gas Enrichment Plant and the Pilot Gas Enrichment Plant additional carries vital proliferation-related dangers. We additionally pay attention to Iran’s choice to revert to the identical cascade configuration because the one found by the IAEA in Fordow earlier this 12 months. Iran’s delay in declaring this alteration in January 2023 solid critical doubts on Iran’s willingness to cooperate with the IAEA in full transparency.
These selections reveal Iran’s lack of fine will in direction of de-escalation and characterize reckless behaviour in a tense regional context.
We urge Iran to instantly reverse these steps and de-escalate its nuclear programme. Iran should totally cooperate with the IAEA to allow it to offer assurances that its nuclear programme is completely peaceable, and to re-designate the inspectors suspended in September 2023.
We stay dedicated to a diplomatic resolution and reaffirm our willpower that Iran mustn’t ever develop a nuclear weapon.
