U.N. report: Uranium particles enriched to 83.7% found in Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The IAEA report mentions only "particles," suggesting that Iran isn't building a stockpile of uranium enriched above 60% -- the level at which it has been conducting enrichment for some time.
51% : "Iran informed the agency that 'unintended fluctuations' in enrichment levels may have occurred during the transition period," the IAEA report says.
51% : But Fordo, which sits under a mountain near the holy Shiite city of Qom, about 80 miles southwest of Tehran, remains a special concern for the international community.
47% : While the IAEA's director-general has warned that Iran now has enough uranium to produce "several" nuclear bombs if it chooses, it probably would take months more to build a weapon and potentially miniaturize it to fit on a missile.
44% : "Discussions between the agency and Iran to clarify the matter are ongoing."
44% : Speaking in Berlin, Israel's visiting foreign minister, Eli Cohen, pointed to two options to deal with Iran -- using a so-called snapback mechanism in the U.N. Security Council resolution that enshrined the 2015 nuclear deal to reimpose sanctions, and "to have a credible military option on the table as well."
42% : Iran's mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to questions regarding the report, details of which had been circulating for about a week.
42% : Any explanation from Iran, however, probably won't be enough to satisfy Israel, Iran's regional archrival.
41% : "To the best of our knowledge, we don't believe that the supreme leader in Iran has yet made a decision to resume the weaponization program that we judge they suspended or stopped at the end of 2003," CIA Director Williams Burns told CBS' "Face the Nation" program.
39% : Uranium at nearly 84% is almost 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% : The U.S. intelligence community, as recently as last weekend, has maintained its assessment that Iran isn't pursuing an atomic bomb.
37% : The United States' unilateral withdraw from the accord in 2018 set in motion a series of criticisms and escalations by Tehran over its program.
36% : The confidential quarterly report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency distributed to member states is likely to further raise tensions between Iran and the West over the nation's program.
35% : Tehran already faces internal unrest after months of protests, in addition to Western anger over its sending bomb-carrying drones to Russia for its war in Ukraine.
34% : Already, Israel's recently reinstalled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened military actions against Tehran.
32% : And Israel and Iran have been engaged in a high-stakes shadow war across the wider Middle East since the nuclear deal's collapse.
30% : Iran has been producing uranium enriched to 60% purity -- a level for which nonproliferation experts already say Tehran has no civilian use.
29% : Meanwhile Tuesday, Germany's foreign minister said both her country and Israel are worried about the allegations facing Iran over the nearly 84% enriched uranium.

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