Iran Continues To Play Chicken
Iran has started to inject uranium feedstock gas into centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear facility, crossing an internationally agreed “red line” on the path to producing the material for atomic weapons.
A senior diplomat from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that researchers at the republic’s pilot enrichment plant in central Iran had taken the crucial step, signalling a major escalation in the long-running face-off between Tehran and the West.
Iran has publicly pledged to resume its suspended nuclear programme before the United Nations’ watchdog meets in Vienna next month to discuss possible UN Security Council action, which could include sanctions.
The diplomat said Iran had not yet fired up the whole 164-centrifuge cascade but had begun to load some centrifuges with the raw uranium hexafluoride (UF6), which can then be purified into enriched uranium.
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