Headline RoundupSeptember 7th, 2019

Iran Warns of Increased Uranium Production

Middle East, Iran, Tehran, Nuclear Weapons, Foreign Policy

Summary from the AllSides News Team

In a letter sent Thursday to European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif described new steps the country is taking to boost uranium supplies in a way that would breach the Iranian nuclear accord. Iran's Atomic Energy Organization spokesman told reporters Saturday that the country is indeed advancing nuclear research, but said that it has no immediate plans to construct new weapons. Iran had set a July deadline for the EU to help remedy effects of United States sanctions, but the request was not formally met. Most outlets on the left and center prominently acknowledged Iran's reported lack of intention to build new weapons; others, particularly on the right, mentioned it later in coverage or not at all.

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From the Right

Iran using advanced tech to speed up nuclear weapon production: experts

New York Post (News)

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Iran is now using technology which could allow it to produce enough material to build a nuclear weapon in less than a year, experts said.

Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said the nation is using an array of advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium in violation of its 2015 nuclear deal, the Associated Press reported.

Time is running out for Iran and Europe to settle on new terms to the agreement. Iran previously breached limits set on its nuclear stockpile and enrichment levels, but claimed it could...

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From the Left

Iran uses advanced centrifuges, threatens higher enrichment

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Saturday said it now uses arrays of advanced centrifuges prohibited by its 2015 nuclear deal and can enrich uranium “much more beyond” current levels to weapons-grade material, taking a third step away from the accord while warning Europe has little time to offer it new terms.

While insisting Iran doesn’t seek a nuclear weapon, the comments by Behrouz Kamalvandi of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran threatened pushing uranium enrichment far beyond levels ever reached in the country. Prior to the atomic deal, Iran...

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From the Left

Tehran warns time is running out to save Iran nuclear deal

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Iran has stated itis now capable of raising uranium enrichment past the 20% level and, while it has no immediate plans to do so, the clock is ticking towards the point where the 2015 nuclear deal could not be salvaged.

Behrouz Kamalvandi, the Iranian nuclear agency spokesman, told a press conference: “We have started lifting limitations on our research and development imposed by the deal … It will include development of more rapid and advanced centrifuges.

“The European parties to the deal should know that there is not much time...

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