Iranian official: We have crossed the 120 kg threshold of 20% enriched uranium | Israel Today

The pressure exerted by Tehran on the Biden administration is growing: Iran has crossed the 120 kg enriched threshold of 20%

, the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency's chairman Muhammad Islamic announced yesterday (Saturday).

"We have more than 120 kilograms of enriched uranium at a rate of 20%," an Islamic State official was quoted as saying by IRNA.

"Our citizens know very well that they (the Western powers) were supposed to give the enriched fuel at a rate of 20% for the use of the reactor in Tehran, but they did not," the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency chairman continued. Naturally, there are problems of fuel shortages for the reactor in Tehran. "Islami added the typical claim of Tehran that" our nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, and we only care about our national interests. "

This is a very significant development because it means that Iran has crossed the required threshold of enriched uranium by 20% to produce an atomic bomb - 120 kg. Just last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that Iran has 84.3 kg of enriched uranium At a rate of 20%, that is, either Iran is speeding towards the first nuclear bomb, or, alternatively, the IAEA data is only partial.

The first significant signal of Iran's transformation into a nuclear threshold was received last month, when the New York Times reported that Tehran was just one month away from enough material to produce its first nuclear bomb.

On the other hand, officials in the US administration then claimed that it would take Tehran a few months.

A decipherment of the report submitted to the IAEA by the U.S. Institute of Science and International Security even indicated that Tehran's decision to increase the uranium enrichment rate to 60% also put them in a position "that they have the ability to produce enough nuclear fuel for a second bomb in three Months and a third in less than five months. "

Islami's announcement came about a day after the Biden administration decided to lift sanctions against two Iranian companies: Mamut Industries and its subsidiary Mamut Diesel.

"This is not a change in US policy against Iran," the Biden administration said, although in the background negotiations for a resumption of the nuclear deal with Iran are expected to resume.

A spokesman for the US Treasury Department tried to explain that the lifting of sanctions had nothing to do with the efforts to renegotiate the nuclear deal. Them against the Mammoth Corporation for being a "key producer in the Iranian missile program."

If so, Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdullahian did state over the weekend that his country is expected to return to nuclear talks but it seems that the ultra-conservative "Tehran executioner" Ibrahim Raisi has developed a method: on the one hand, to declare an aspiration to return to nuclear talks - without giving a clear deadline.

And on the other hand, to gallop towards Iran's first nuclear bomb.