Russia 'has removed uranium from Iran'

Discussion in 'Politics' started by OddTrader, Dec 28, 2015.

  1. Q
    http://www.news.com.au/world/breaki...n/news-story/f4ac2010bdf9d76b859c8c317f170033


    Russia 'has removed uranium from Iran'
    December 29, 20154:31am
    George JahnAAP


    Iran has met a key requirement of a nuclear deal with six world powers by allowing Moscow to transfer most of its enriched uranium to Russia, a senior Russian diplomat has told news agency The Associated Press.

    The diplomat demanded anonymity because he was not authorised to be identified by name.

    Under the July 14 deal, Iran must ship out all except 300 kilograms of the close to nine tons of low-enriched uranium it has stockpiled. Low-enriched uranium is suited to power generation but can be further enriched to arm nuclear warheads.

    Its removal is a key obligation taken on by Iran under the deal, which aims to reduce its ability to make nuclear weapons - something Tehran says it has no interest in.

    The agreement also commits Iran to sharply reduce the number of centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium, as well as to re-engineer a reactor to cut its output of plutonium - another pathway to nuclear weapons.

    In exchange for those and other moves meant to constrain Iran's ability to make such arms for more than a decade, most international sanctions imposed on Tehran over its nuclear programs will be lifted.

    That will happen after the U.N's International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that Iran has met all commitments.

    That stage of the deal, known as implementation day, is expected sometime next month.

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  2. Arnie

    Arnie

    I wonder who their first target will be once they get a bomb?
     
  3. Nine_Ender

    Nine_Ender

    Hopefully they have more sense the US military in 1959, a group that willingly would risk millions of lives ( including many Americans ) to play their war games.
     
  4. ipatent

    ipatent

    They wouldn't start a war with a single bomb, especially against a country that has a lot of them.