Iran expanding uranium enrichment program

Iran has expanded its uranium enrichment program in defiance of U.N. Security Council demands that it dismantle the program, setting the stage for new council sanctions.

Iran continues to insist its nuclear intentions are peaceful, but equipment acquired on the black market and blueprints resembling weapons have led to suspicion and U.N. sanctions over its refusal to freeze enrichment.

Major powers to insist Iran stop atomic work: U.S.

VIENNA, Austria -Iran continues to defy U.N. Security Council demands to scrap its uranium enrichment program and has instead expanded its activities, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday in a finding that sets the stage for new council sanctions.

The report from Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the U.N.‘s nuclear watchdog agency, also faulted Tehran for blocking IAEA efforts to probe suspicious nuclear activities, saying that meant it could not “provide assurances about … the exclusively peaceful nature” of its atomic program.

And, in new and worrying phrasing, it expressed concern about its “deteriorating” understanding of unexplored aspects of the program, despite four years of a probe sparked by revelations that Tehran had been clandestinely developing enrichment and other nuclear activities that could be used to make weapons for nearly two decades.

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