Alleged higher Iran enrichment worries Germany, Israel - WTOP News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : She added that "it's important ... that the international community make this clear to Iran with a united voice."
49% : A spokesman for Iran's civilian nuclear program, Behrouz Kamalvandi, sought last week to portray any detection of uranium particles enriched to that level as a momentary side effect of trying to reach a finished product of 60% purity -- which Tehran already has announced it is producing.
47% : Germany is one of the world powers with which Iran entered a 2015 nuclear deal that limited its uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity -- enough to fuel a nuclear power plant.
47% : Cohen pointed to two options to deal with Iran -- using a so-called "snapback" mechanism in the Security Council resolution that enshrined the 2015 nuclear deal to reimpose U.N. sanctions, and "to have a credible military option on the table as well." "From our intelligence and from our knowledge, this is the right time to work on these two specific steps," he said.
45% : The Vienna-based U.N. nuclear watchdog hasn't denied the report, saying only "that the IAEA is discussing with Iran the results of recent agency verification activities.
40% : However, uranium at 84% is nearly at weapons-grade levels of 90% -- meaning any stockpile of that material could be quickly used to produce an atomic bomb if Iran chooses.
39% : Annalena Baerbock spoke at a news conference with Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen days after an Iranian official called the allegation part of a "conspiracy" against Tehran amid tensions over its nuclear program.
37% : BERLIN (AP) -- Germany and Israel are worried about an accusation attributed to international inspectors that Iran enriched uranium to 84% purity, the German foreign minister said Tuesday, insisting that there would be no plausible civilian justification for such a move.
33% : Baerbock stressed the importance of "preventing a nuclear escalation by Iran by diplomatic means, because every alternative would be disastrous."
27% : Tehran has long insisted its program is for peaceful purposes, though the IAEA, Western intelligence agencies and nonproliferation experts say Iran pursued a secret nuclear weapons program up until 2003.
16% : Iran is Israel's regional archrival, and recently reinstalled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu already has threatened military actions against Tehran.

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