Britain, France and Germany have accused Iran of growing a stockpile of highly enriched uranium to “unprecedented levels,” doing so without “credible civilian justification.”
According to a report in Tuesday's Telegraph, the three countries said in a statement on y ahead of a Tuesday UN Security Council meeting on Tehran’s nuclear program that Iran must “reverse its nuclear escalation,” which has soared to dangerous and unwarranted levels.
Indeed, the news report said, Iran increased its manufacturing to such an extent that it was the only non-nuclear weapons state to possess uranium enriched to 60 percent. That statistic was attributed to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an important nuclear watchdog.
As the report continues, this level is considered a significant step along the way to the 90 percent required for an atomic bomb.
“Iran’s stockpile of high enriched uranium has also reached unprecedented levels, again without any credible civilian justification. It gives Iran the capability to rapidly produce sufficient fissile material for multiple nuclear weapons,” Britain, France and Germany said in the statement, as quoted by The Telegraph.
The quote continued: “Iran has ramped up its installation of advanced centrifuges, which is yet another damaging step in Iran’s efforts to undermine the nuclear deal that they claim to support.”